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Speaker 1: you by Bally Beck. Coming soon to Ohio on ESPN Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, bow Bishop and Nathan Tzagura. Happy

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Speaker 1: First Friday, everybody. Nathan Tsagura, Jason Gibs with you today

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Speaker 1: on this Wednesday. Bout Bishop, still on assignment, will be

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Speaker 1: back with us on Friday. Coming up, we're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: from the head coach. You're Cleveland Brown, Kevin Sefanski. That's

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Speaker 1: coming up momentarily here on this program. The Commanders have

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Speaker 1: announced this morning the Carson Wentz will be their starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: so we'll get some reaction to that as well. We'll

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Speaker 1: go around the National Football League. At two o'clock. Bernie

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Speaker 1: Kozar joins us to we meet the Commander. Is to

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Speaker 1: thirty better or we're Anthony Poisel back in studio at

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Speaker 1: two thirty. There for the Browns an opportunity to really

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Speaker 1: play spoiler a lot at steak obviously in this game

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Speaker 1: for the Commanders, not as much as we would like

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Speaker 1: to have at steak in this game for the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: Uh for the right Now the Commanders enter Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: seven seven in one, they play the Browns and they

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Speaker 1: play the Dallas Cowboys. They are the seven seed in

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Speaker 1: the NFC playoffs if they make if they win their

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Speaker 1: last two games, they are in. They control their own destiny.

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Speaker 1: They can can clinch a playoff birth in Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: with a win coupled with a loss for each of

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Speaker 1: the Lions, Seahawks, and the Packers. Conversely, the Commanders would

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Speaker 1: be eliminated from the playoffs in Week seventeen if the

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Speaker 1: their games Lions against the Bears, Packers against Minnesota. So

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Speaker 1: they could go either way either way here for the

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Speaker 1: onto Week eighteen as well, to see what ultimately happens there.

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Speaker 1: So those are the scenarios, Those are the stakes for

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Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. For the Cleveland Browns playoffs, no longer

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Speaker 1: which would be certainly a very welcome thing in a

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Speaker 1: good way to close out this season's finding. I was

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Speaker 1: tacking with Grant Delpit and I did very bad math Gibb.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Grant, were you even alive in night? He

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Speaker 1: was like, I wasn't born for ten more years. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: good for you, that's it wonderful for you. I was born. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And here's Brown's head coach, Kevin Stefanski. I guess we've

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Speaker 1: gotta technical difficulty having technical difficulties here with head coach

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, which is unfortunate. You'd like to hear them.

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Speaker 1: He was referring early there to the fact that Carson

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Speaker 1: on in relief of Heineken. Now they benched Heineke in

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Speaker 1: this game. You have a guess of what heinekee stats

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Speaker 1: were in this game when he was benched. He left

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Speaker 1: what early in the fourth quarter? He was thirteen. Heineke

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns and an interception, but he did throw that pick,

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Speaker 1: Now we'll try. Head coach comes to Panskey again. Was

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Speaker 1: running things down. I mean he's a very very impressive player,

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Speaker 1: rushed for they don't blitz the time. They gave our

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Speaker 1: offense problems. Last year we just set records against them defensively.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't block our guys last year. Was it last

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Speaker 1: year we played we beat him? Was that the Miles?

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Speaker 1: Well maybe I'm thinking Chicago, you're thinking of Chicago. No,

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Speaker 1: But like Washington, Miles had a monster Yes, two sacks

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Speaker 1: and a forced fumble. Yep Um beat him thirty four

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Speaker 1: to twenty in that one Nick chob nineteen carries. Game

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Speaker 1: was closer than that final score. The I mean there

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Speaker 1: was there was some doubt going into the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: A matter of fact, I think, well, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Washington might have been tied or maybe

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Speaker 1: even in the lead going in the fourth quarter. We

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Speaker 1: scored seventeen points in the fourth quarter, you know that,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, they twenty three at that point or something weird.

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00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: But it was something very strange. But they could not

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Speaker 1: block our guys. But they had a lot of trouble

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Speaker 1: with their front line, and that front line is still there.

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00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: Sweat and Alan each had a sack in that game.

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Speaker 1: We ran up pretty well with Nick Chubb. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: Harrison Bryant had his first career touchdown in that game

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Speaker 1: as well. That was Baker May Philligains Dwyne Haskins. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So obviously very different teams um that will see this

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Speaker 1: time around. But yeah, this is a good Washington football team.

452
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: They're looking they're fighting for their playoff lives. This game

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Speaker 1: means absolutely everything to them. The Browns have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to play spoiler and hopefully that's what they will be

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Speaker 1: able to do when they go out and get the

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Speaker 1: job done against this team, which is a very very

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Speaker 1: talented team. It really is. It's a very very good team,

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Speaker 1: uh from the Washington Commander side of it. Good defense,

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Speaker 1: they can run the ball. Brian Robinson leads their team

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Speaker 1: with seven yards on the season, and then they can

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Speaker 1: throw out mclauren's back to the Pro Bowl again. Han

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Speaker 1: dots in the rookie at a Penn State. Their first

463
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Speaker 1: rounder has got seven touchdowns. Uh. Curtis Samuel's got a

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Speaker 1: six hundred fifty two yards and Samuel has been much

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Speaker 1: better with Carson Wentz than with Heinick this season, So

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Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on. I think they

467
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Speaker 1: will throw it a little bit more um with Wentz

468
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Speaker 1: and he will give you some opportunities, So give you

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Speaker 1: opportunities to take the football away from him, but he

470
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Speaker 1: can also make plays if you sleep on him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. Samuel with Wentz this year,

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Speaker 1: five point three receptions a game, three receiving touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: seven games. Hinek two point eight receptions a game, one

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Speaker 1: touchdown in nine games. So that's uh Curtis Samuel certainly,

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Speaker 1: I think, probably happy about that quarterback switched there. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned that they have allowed uh twenty four points when

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Speaker 1: they've allowed more twenty four plus points. Commanders are o

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Speaker 1: and four this season, which is incredible. It's not too

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Speaker 1: shabby at all. This is a team that did not

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Speaker 1: start off the season well. Heineke gave them enough of

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Speaker 1: a spark, yep. Clearly riverbolt Ron thinks the spark is

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Speaker 1: gone back to Wentz and we'll see if it's enough

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Speaker 1: to propel Washington into the playoffs. They have definitely overachieved

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Speaker 1: given everything that's going on off the field with that organization. Yeah,

485
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: no doubt, Yes they have, Yes, they have. Good job

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Speaker 1: by them. Still the worst press box, still not looking

487
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Speaker 1: for I'm not well. You've got me very nervous, scared,

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Speaker 1: about it, but hopefully some good weather and we'll be

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Speaker 1: able to, you know, have a good degrees. Don't look

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00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: lying rain now. So the rain's out good for now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're right on that edge where

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Speaker 1: it could rain like in the morning, or it might

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Speaker 1: be out of here. But I will take fifty nine

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Speaker 1: degrees on January one, especially after we take just what

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Speaker 1: we just came through Tundra Tundra. Granted, that was the

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Speaker 1: coldest he's ever been by out by a wide, wide

497
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Speaker 1: margin in that game. All right, when we come back,

498
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Brown's tight end, David and joking,

499
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: plus will go around the league as well with some things, uh,

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Speaker 1: some news on some core backs in Miami in Philadelphia

501
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: as well. Um, and then do we have a return.

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00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: This is what we always wanted for the Hoff, but

503
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Speaker 1: we've never put ourselves in position for a meaningful game

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Speaker 1: for the Hof to make such a dramatic return. All

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Speaker 1: to hear from Brown's tight end David Njoku heading into Washington,

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Speaker 1: c Guys, knowing there's not playoffs on the line, knowing

516
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: this locker room the way, did you do? What do

517
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: you think it will be? Like, Guys, we have a

518
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: job to do and we intend on doing it. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna put our best foot forward and it's gonna

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00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: be a good game against Washington. I mean, when we

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00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: talk to you in the last few weeks, you've always

522
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: been you know, we're not done you, We're not done it.

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Speaker 1: So personally, how do you have a process affected from

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Speaker 1: a playoff perspective? Um, Obviously it's tough, you know, But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, like I just said, we also

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Speaker 1: still have a job to do, so we intend to

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Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna, you know, give it all we've

528
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: got about Shawn Watson coming along, what have you seeing

529
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: in him this day? You know, the progress, A lot

530
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: of progress and a lot of world for sure in

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Speaker 1: just this past like a couple of weeks that he's

532
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 1: been with us. Um. Yeah, no, I'm really excited, you know,

533
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: for the future. Obviously it's tough right now, you know,

534
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. So we're gonna move forward.

535
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: You're really open after the game just you know, sah,

536
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: you let the team down, So like, what are the

537
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: last couple of days? Is that tough for you? Um,

538
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: you know dealing with that, you know obviously, but um,

539
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: it's just one of one of those things. Man, we

540
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: gotta just keep keep going. We gotta move forward. Uh.

541
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: I I own up to that completely. I think that

542
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: you know, it is my fault completely, and it is

543
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: what it is. So I gotta move on. I gotta

544
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, show, gotta lead by example and you know, uh,

545
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: work hard in practice, you know, and give it all

546
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Speaker 1: in the game and just keep pushing. What do you

547
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: hope to accomplish in these last two games? Both from

548
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: an individual standpoint and then collectively. It is an offensive.

549
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna show how much people, how much

550
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: we how bad do we want to win no matter

551
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, even though when we're out of the playoffs

552
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: and everything, and how much we just love the game

553
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: of football, you know what I mean, playing for your pride,

554
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: playing for your brothers, you know, giving it all you've

555
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: got for them, you know, even though you know we're

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Speaker 1: not going to advance. So in falling short of the blayoffs?

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Speaker 1: What what would you say sums up your emotions about it?

558
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: Are you frustrated, disappointed? Angry? How do you feel about it?

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00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: And all the above? All the above? You know, Um,

560
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: going into every year, you always have high hopes, high

561
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Speaker 1: you know, goals, and when you don't reach them, it's

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Speaker 1: it's upsetting, you know, especially when you know you you

563
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: work so hard. You know you work, you see, like

564
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: your teammates working really hard and everything, and to not

565
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: get there is it's tough. But like I said, just

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Speaker 1: his life, you know, it is what it is. We've

567
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: gotta keep going. Um, I'm blessed, you know, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I wanted to leave no doubt out, you know,

569
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Speaker 1: but with injuries and everything, it's it's tough. But nevertheless,

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00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: here I am. You know, hopefully I get I get there.

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00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: If not, you know, I gotta work harder next year.

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Speaker 1: And that's just how my mindset is. The more senior

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Speaker 1: guys in this, in this in this locker room, for

574
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: a lot of the younger guys, are you how important

575
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: is it for you to kind of set the tongue,

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Speaker 1: especially over these last two weeks, you know, where there

577
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: are no playoffs, but there are there is still a

578
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: lot individually and personally for people to play for sure.

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Speaker 1: For sure, like I said, um, this is a big

580
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Speaker 1: test to see who loves this game as much as

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Speaker 1: they say they do. Number one, number two. I know

582
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: me and I know you know the tight Ends group.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna give it her all. I know, the whole team. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I have no doubt that

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00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna put our best foot forward and give the

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: commander's hell. You know what I'm saying. It's just it's

587
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: tough because you have that thought in the back of

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: your head like we could have done this or we

589
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: should have done that. But we've got no one to

590
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: blame but ourselves, you know saying, And that's just it

591
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: is what it is. You know, no one put us

592
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: in this position with us, you know, So we've got

593
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: to get back to work, pick up the pieces and

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00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: finish is strong. Washington seems like they're a pretty asky,

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00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: feisty team. Yeah, you know, people tend to you know,

596
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: write them off this year, yet here they are hanging

597
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: around when you watch that defense? What what makes them so?

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00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: I see great things? I see great things. They're they're

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00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: they're fun forward. First of all, is very dominant. You know,

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00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: they take away part in that as well. So we've

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00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: got our handsful. We're gonna have fun specifically next week.

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00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: How good. He's a beast. He's a beast. He has

603
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: it all, you know, speed, power, everything, like you know,

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00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: he's just he's a dominant player. So we have to

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Speaker 1: really you know, give it to him, believe me, of

606
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: the people in this room and in this building. To

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Speaker 1: get where you want to go next year, we don't

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Speaker 1: have to change a lot of things. Absolutely, absolutely, you

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Speaker 1: know obviously you know, um, we're gonna reflect after this season.

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Speaker 1: But there's a bunch of games that you know, we

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Speaker 1: could have sat back and said we could have done

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Speaker 1: this out or third that you know, led us to

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Speaker 1: where we are. So you know, it's football, man, you know,

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00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,479
Speaker 1: things happen. It is what it is, and it's up

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00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: to us to get the job done, and we didn't,

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Speaker 1: so we have to pick up the pieces first of all.

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00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: Finish is strong, pick up the pieces and get back

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Speaker 1: to work. So it's all about the work. It seems

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Speaker 1: like you don't give you guys a pass, even though

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Speaker 1: Shaun was suspended for the first eleven games. From hearing

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Speaker 1: you time, it seems like you believe that you guys

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Speaker 1: really should Still I don't make excuses. I don't make excuses.

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Speaker 1: You know that we could have said anything, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, we didn't do

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Speaker 1: the job. So that's what it is, and that's what

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00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: we have to move on from just yet. But can

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Speaker 1: you maybe look back at some of those those games

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Speaker 1: and moments heading into these last two and kind of

629
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Speaker 1: trying to get the most out of the season in

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Speaker 1: that In that kind of way, I'm just focused on

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Speaker 1: the manner is right now. So after this season, I'll reflect,

632
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, into all that you know, reflecting and uh

633
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Speaker 1: and get back to the people who were worried about

634
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: you the game because the shirt like hoping you were okay,

635
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: come out okay, feeling good. To answer the question, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sick. I feel great. Yeah, you far out and

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: be able to feel your extremities again. I'm fine, dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a funding. That is David Njoku the Chief.

639
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: I love his leadership. I really love the way that

640
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: he's kind of embraced that leadership role here with the

641
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. He has grown by leaps and bounds this season,

642
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: not just as a player but as a leader. It's

643
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: it's been a pretty It's not that he didn't have

644
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: it in him or that we didn't see his ability

645
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: to do that, but to grow the way he has

646
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: this year is just remarkable. Get sensational. Lots of credit

647
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: to him. I can't wait for a full season of

648
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: him with Deshaun Watson. I think we're gonna get some

649
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: real fireworks from the Browns. Young tighten there, all right,

650
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: We told you we gotta go around the league really quickly.

651
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have announced to a Tongue of Valoa indeed

652
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: does have another concussion. You will not play Sunday, Teddy Bridgewater, Theodore.

653
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: Theodore is gonna start. The ador will get the start,

654
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: which is good to see. H What do they do here?

655
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: I mean the NFL players Associations now launching an investigation.

656
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: The league's looking into it. I mean, this guy's gotten

657
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: dinged more than a couple of times now in one

658
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: season and third this year. I mean, are you gonna

659
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: be forcing people to shut him down? Like there's a

660
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: lot riding on this game Sunday? I mean they are

661
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: in New England and oh yeah, you know it. They're

662
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: not in yet by any stretch of the EMag gennation. No, No,

663
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: they're in a they're in a free fall, right, lost

664
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Speaker 1: four in a row. Yeah, and I just I don't

665
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do here with this, with a

666
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: quarterback situation, and you know this guy. You gotta get

667
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: this guy better, you gotta get this guy healthy. But

668
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: what what exactly is going on with him? I don't know.

669
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Teddy, you can win with Teddy. He's gonna

670
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: have to play well, but they can absolutely win with him.

671
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're in an interesting spot there, certainly are

672
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins in Philly. Nick Sirianni provide an update

673
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: on Jalen hurt shoulder, saying if he's healthy, he will

674
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: play your dark right, He'll play. They're trying to conch

675
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: the number one seed. Absolutely. I mean minshe played very well,

676
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: but yeah, they want to be they want to have

677
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts out there is playing at an m v

678
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: P level. Former Pro Bowl left tackle Super Bowl fifty

679
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: six champion Andrew Wentworth hinted a possible return to the

680
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: Bengals after starting right tackle L Collins suffered a season

681
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: ending a c L injury. Said Whitworth, I've said this

682
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: since the day I retired. I'll never say never. There's

683
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: always a chance, he said on the Season with Peter

684
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: Schrager podcast. Yeah, your day. Could he be back? That

685
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: would be an awesome story for the Bengals obviously and

686
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: and Andrew Whitworth. So we'll keep monitor will monitor that

687
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: there and see what ultimately ends up happening with Andrew Whitworth.

688
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: We might have to go back to the well if

689
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: he comes back and talk to half about this. Yeah,

690
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: I mean that's a pretty bold come back. And I

691
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: mean I think the Bengals would welcome that. Is he

692
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: still so he's not under contract any longer with the Rams. No,

693
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,720
Speaker 1: they don't own his rights or I don't think so,

694
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: so that that's what they wouldn't stop him anyway, They

695
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: would really if that's what it was, they would release him. Like, no,

696
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna be fine. If he wants to play with

697
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals, he can. By the way, I have another

698
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: story that I didn't put in this too. Did you

699
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: see that Ed Reid is slated to become the next

700
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: head football coach at Bethune Cookman? Yeah? What is? Why?

701
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: What's happening? Did you so? He's the latest high profile

702
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: former athlete to coach the HBCU ranks Dion Sanders with

703
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Jackson State. Eddie George is still at Tennessee State. UM.

704
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: The athletic director at this college is Reggie Theus, who

705
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: was also the basketball player a bunch of former athletes.

706
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know Ed Reid wanted to

707
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: be a football coach. Me neither. Um. He will be

708
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: the sixteenth head coach there um, which is wild. He's

709
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 1: currently the chief of staff at the University of Miami

710
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: and now he is, Uh, he's doing this. How much

711
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: work do you think he did as a chief I mean,

712
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: a chief of staff is normally doing a lot of work.

713
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Ed Reid is. Maybe maybe I'm wrong

714
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: on that, but I'm not so sure. Ed Reid is

715
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: the guy based on where we've seen him and how

716
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: we've seen him. I mean, he's been all over the

717
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: country and he might be able to recruit. That's all

718
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: it is. The create It's not like this has been

719
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: a good program. They were two and nine last year,

720
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: only wins coming over Grambling State and Mississippi Valley State,

721
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: and those teams only combined for five wins. Jackson State

722
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: coach by Dion beat Bethune Cookman eight. The University of

723
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: Miami opened it season with an easy over the Wildcats

724
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: in a bye game scheduled and hard to help subsidize

725
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: their athletic budget. And now he's he's taking over. So

726
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: this isn't It's not like this is a program that's

727
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: on the way up at all. I didn't know this either.

728
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: Reid was an assistant dB coach with Buffalo and the

729
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: Bills in two thousand six. Yeah I didn't. I don't

730
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying it

731
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: won't be successful, but I just felt like this was

732
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: out of no where. Yeah, it feels very out of nowhere.

733
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: It seems it seems wild. So we'll see what that

734
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: ultimately leads to. And and and how that ends up

735
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: going for them. Um, yeah, it's a lot of where

736
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I still don't know what it's gonna be

737
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: like for you know, you can see Dion recruiting already

738
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: at Colorado, but that's it feels like a bit much bigger,

739
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: uh task than what he was doing at Jackson State

740
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: and obviously was very successful there. I don't know if

741
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: you saw this from the NBA from the Association last night,

742
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: Luca done at sixty points twenty one boards tennis is

743
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: first ever in history, not hard of seeing. Did you

744
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: see the free throw to essentially tie the game? Oh? Yes,

745
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: I mean pretty ridiculous game last night in the league. Yes,

746
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: And I know that that he's he's gotten some flak

747
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: here recently, maybe the party circuit, maybe the buffet line.

748
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: Maybe not the greatest in shape. What do you mean,

749
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: he's been unbelievable, but he has been that. That game

750
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: was ridiculous, But he hasn't been like they were down

751
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: nine with thirty five seconds to go down nine four

752
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: straight NBA games in the last twenty seasons when a

753
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 1: team was up nine with thirty five or fewer seconds

754
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: left had one hundred. It makes us feel better about

755
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: the Jets that was only two thousand, like two D

756
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: and thirty something? What am I looking at? Here? Um?

757
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: There was something? Was it him? What? No? It's definitely

758
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: not man, I'm having a day kids. I mean, Luca done.

759
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: It's it's not Luca. Who? Who else? Who am I

760
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: missing Lucas? Beyond? What are you trying to say? There's

761
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: someone in the league that has put on some Yoki

762
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: and fifteen on Sunday, but the party circuit was not

763
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: good to him in the off season. These guys do it.

764
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: They're just they do everything they want. These guys are

765
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: both unbelievable because they lead like crazy lifestyles, like you

766
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: don't play until nighttime and then you're up all night

767
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: and then whatever. Don Ketch and Yokich each have seven

768
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: triple doubles already. Nobody else has more than three Don

769
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: Catches averaging thirty four points, nine rebounds, nine assists. Since

770
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: sist started getting tracked, nobody's ever end the season averaging

771
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: so much in all three categories thirty four, nine, and nine.

772
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: Yokich goes into Wednesday averaging twenty five points, eleven boards,

773
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: and nine and a half assists. Only Oscar Robertson has

774
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: ever ended a season with those kind of averages every

775
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: in the standings. Okay, it's early their sixth nineteen and sixteen,

776
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: so an other words, in on anybody else around him, Yeah,

777
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean they're unbelievable. I mean for him to intentionally

778
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: miss it, leap, catch it and shoot and make it

779
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: all in one motion was by the way he didn't

780
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: get the board at first when you went through like

781
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: four or five players hands before he ended up with it. Yeah, unreal.

782
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: But that was an incredible basketball performance yesterday by Luca

783
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: don chech I like, I mean, I like him, I

784
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: like his game. That should be a fun playoffs this

785
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: year in the NBA. The NBA, it's just it's hard

786
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: for the regular season. It's so long. We still have

787
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: like four months, I know, but it's good. But the

788
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: playoff basketballs that's when it gets serious and there's you

789
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: know a lot of teams obviously, and that's that's a

790
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: long process too, the playoffs. Yeah then yeah, because they

791
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: don't play their series in a week. It takes like

792
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: two weeks per series. Plenty of time there, no doubt,

793
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: no doubt. So that's what's going on around the league.

794
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, no Jet wills practice for

795
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: the Browns with The good news is Jevan Clowney is

796
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: back at practice today and should be good to go

797
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: from with the concussion should be out the concussion protocol

798
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: for the Washington football team, the Commanders, as you just

799
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: stayed with the football team hostly, but the Commanders or

800
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: gone to a better name. We've talked about a billion

801
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: better names, but uh, they are smaking the switch back

802
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: to Carson Wentz. Let's right to Carson Wentz at quarterback

803
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: when they take on the Browns on New Year's Day

804
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: twenty three. That game will take place twenty twenty three,

805
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Commanders from a FedEx field this

806
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: Sunday at one pm. Alright, our number two when we

807
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: come back, kicking it off with Bernie Kosar here on

808
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: the program. Plus we've got meet the Washington Commanders as well.

809
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: We talked about some of the things about that team already,

810
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: and then we've got higher or lower, a k A

811
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: better or worse with Anthony Poisel. I'll come on your

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Speaker 1: way here in our number two. Cluton brown Daily brought

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Speaker 1: we'll be joined by Brown's legend Bernie Kozar. Does the

819
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: Browns get ready to take on the Washington Commanders? I

820
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 1: looked up the Bernie two and two all time against

821
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: Washington with the member of the Browns and with the

822
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys as well. So we'll talk to him about

823
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: what it was like back in the day going into

824
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: Washington to those games with the Browns were played in Washington,

825
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: one in one one for Bernice. So will ask him

826
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: about those games. And uh, you know, what do you

827
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: do here when you're the Cleveland Browns when this season

828
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: has not gone the way that you wanted it to,

829
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: when you were playoff hopes unfortunately are over? Um, how

830
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: do you finish this thing out? How do you play strong?

831
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: How do you get the job done? How do you

832
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: look at and evaluate these guys that are left? You know,

833
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: do we get a little bit more of a look

834
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: at Jerome Ford here in the final two games on offense.

835
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: You know, guys that maybe have a future with us

836
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: or not. Does I think I heard in the press

837
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: because I remember we lost some of it, But when

838
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: he came back, it sounded like maybe they were talking

839
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: about Jalen dardin a little bit. Is he was there?

840
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: Like any news on that, Is he going to be

841
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: active or something? Uh not that I have seen, but

842
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: I will it sounded like they were talking about him

843
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: because he said the guy that you want to see

844
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: what he could do with the ball in his hand,

845
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: you know as a returner. Um. I mean, I mean

846
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: I can tell you Reggie Raglan is going to be

847
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,959
Speaker 1: on the previous show tonight. I mean, here's a guy

848
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: that's impressed. And you know, he talked about getting it

849
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: was like a second chance in the NFL and wanting

850
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: to make the most of it and he's valuing every

851
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: one of these games. Yeah, and I think there's a

852
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: lot of guys like that. Yeah, he went out there

853
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: ten tackles led the team last week. Obviously a tremendous

854
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: job from Reggie Raglan, good physical run supporting linebacker. And

855
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: that was the game last week that really fit in well.

856
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: For him, and this is a Washington team that likes

857
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: to run the ball. It's a Washington team that leads

858
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: the NFL in time of possession. Browns are second. Believe

859
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: it or not, but they are number one thirty two

860
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 1: minutes forty seven seconds a game. The Browns are number

861
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: two at thirty two minutes as well. Amazingly, our division

862
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: has three of the top five Browns at thirty two

863
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: minutes Bengals thirty one fifty seven, Ravens thirty one forty one.

864
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 1: So this is a Washington team that possesses the ball.

865
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: They run in part that's because they do such a

866
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: good job on defense of getting people off the field.

867
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: They're the number four total defense, number three on third downs.

868
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: They do not give up big plays as we talked about,

869
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: and they're very stinging in the red zone. So they've

870
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: been a very effective defense. It's a good test for

871
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and what should be the best weather that

872
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: he's gotten to have and since the debut and all right,

873
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: he is here to the hot line we go. Brown's

874
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: legend Bernie Cozar joined the show via the Twisted Tea Hotline,

875
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: brought to you by Twisted Tea hard iced tea and

876
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: official sponsor the Cleveland Browns Keep it Twisted Cleveland, Bernie,

877
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing good, Nathan. Actually, as you're

878
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: given that awesome Washington Commander's defensive breakdown, I'm thinking of

879
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: they're great head coach Ron Rivera and the Bears that

880
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: were aggressively coming at you and the Washington Commanders. Um,

881
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: although their defense isn't at that level. Um, they actually

882
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: are playing somehow that bend but don't break type defense,

883
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: the antithesis of what Ron Rivera did in the in

884
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: the mid hities. Yet they're having, unfortunately for US Browns fans,

885
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: really good success him and Jack del Rio especially um

886
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: in that scoring zone. Yeah, they've been great in the

887
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: red zone, as we talked about, great on third downs,

888
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: and a lot of it starts with their ability and

889
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: they've really been doing it with three guys. But now

890
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: Chase Young as a backs a lot of four first

891
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: rounders on the defensive line. But they can get home

892
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: without blitzing. Sweats got seven sacks, Payne's got nine and

893
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: a half, a career high. Jonathan Allen's got seven and

894
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: a half. They were one of two teams in the

895
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: league Philly being the other with three players that have

896
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: seven or more sacks, and they're able to play behind that.

897
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of shell defense there third in

898
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: the league in quarters coverage, so they're able to kind

899
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: of play shell, not let you throw the ball over

900
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: their head and not give up big plays and then

901
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: rely on their guys up front to get home. And

902
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: when a team can do that, Bernie, when they can

903
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: pressure quarterback with four and have seven in coverage, how

904
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 1: hard does that make it for a quarterback? Wow, Nathan,

905
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: I'm having a massive old time flashback right now to

906
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: the Washington Commander's defensive coordinator Jack del Rio, Um was

907
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: my teammate with the Miami Dolphins at the end of

908
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: my career in the mid nineties. He also has a

909
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: history with Jamie Johnson and the Dallas Cowboys and Super

910
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: Bowl rings. And how we just described the Washington Commanders

911
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: with unfortunately four number one draft picks on their off

912
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, and as you Soak unfortunately correctly

913
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: pointed out the shell covers that they're playing. The old

914
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: Cowboy teams that Jack del Rio was the middle linebacker

915
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: for did exactly that philosophy. Awesome front four get after

916
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: you with four guys actually play shell coverage, don't even

917
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: bring the safety up into the box because I I

918
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 1: have so much confidence in my front four pass russ

919
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: to disrupt um the offensive line and get after the

920
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: quarterback and on the way to the quarterback be able

921
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 1: to disrupt the running game that I'm able to play

922
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 1: shell coverage behind that. That's exactly what we've been seeing

923
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: through the course of the year with the Washington Commanders

924
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: without Chase Young and their Chase unfortunately came back to

925
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: play last week and showed showed that he is uh

926
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: still a phenomenal player in in his athleticism. In that game,

927
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: he I think he played like thirty five snaps and

928
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: they thought he was only going to play fifteen. So

929
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: you could see them getting after with their front flour,

930
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: playing at old school coverage that I used to see

931
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and nineties. Yeah, and that makes

932
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: it tough. And and speaking of in the eighties and

933
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: even in the early nineties, you made a couple of

934
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: trips to Washington and it's you know, the Commanders went

935
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: to the playoffs recently. They were out early two years

936
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: ago when Tampa Bay knocked them out. Heineke was their quarterback.

937
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: But they hadn't been a power in a long time.

938
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a team that people I think

939
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: forgetting how good they were in the eighties in your heyday.

940
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: What was it like when you would go into Washington

941
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: and take on then the Redskins. Well that was that

942
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: was one of the high points of my career to

943
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: be able to play against the Joke Gibbs and and

944
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: the Fox and that that type team back then. They well,

945
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl seven. There wasn't for one

946
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: of our AFC Championship games I would have liked to

947
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: have been their opponent. And in that game they were

948
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: loaded that year. They play amazing defense. They had they

949
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: had some of the top tier pass rushers, like we're

950
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: talking about this upcoming Sunday with the great Charles Mann

951
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 1: and Dexter Manly of yes, and there was a lot

952
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: of stories about the old school days and that type

953
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 1: of line and the way they played in the Super

954
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. So God bless them, and that was a

955
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: massive honor for me to go in there with the

956
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: great earnest miner and and win a game, win a

957
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: couple of games in in the old JFK Stadium. Um,

958
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: they that that old school field actually was as close

959
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: to assimilated to the old municipal stadium with the old

960
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: grass field that they had had there that by the

961
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 1: end of the year needed to be spray painted spray

962
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: painted mud, uh green, so they look like a grass

963
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: But let me just say that Cleveland mud was way

964
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,959
Speaker 1: muddier than the Red Skin's turf. I love it. Great

965
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 1: stuff right now with Bernie Cozar, Bernie, all right, let's

966
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: talk about this Brown's team. Obviously, season didn't go the

967
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 1: way that we wanted and the Browns have been eliminated

968
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: from the playoffs, just not able to get it done consistently.

969
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: And you go back kind of that four game stretch,

970
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: and really it was a six game stretch where they

971
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: went one in five against the Jets, the Steelers, the Falcons,

972
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Patriots, and the Ravens. And that really

973
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: is where this season got away from them. And so

974
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: that's kind of where the Browns have been stuck. Uh,

975
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: And here they are, what do you do these final

976
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: two games? How do you get these guys motivated? Bernie

977
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: and take us in the locker room? What's the mentality?

978
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: How do you deal with this and and what do

979
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: you hope to see from the guys on Sunday. Yeah,

980
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of great questions within within that

981
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: right there, Nathan. But I think first and foremost, you know,

982
00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: the effort has been there from from the organization, this staff,

983
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: the players to the course of the year. Unfortunately, the

984
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: results haven't materialized on the field at times, and the

985
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: difference between winning and losing in the NFL, it's that

986
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: four or five game stretch that you mentioned couldn't have

987
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: been any more clear as to how what a fine

988
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:22,240
Speaker 1: line it is between getting a wor and or end

989
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: or ending up with an elm Um in our in

990
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: our business and stuff, I want to be. It's the

991
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: Christmas week, uh, the end of two starting our new

992
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: year off. I want to really be positive and and

993
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 1: think through things from a positive light to it. Um,

994
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: for the kids out there. I put so much effort,

995
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: so much intentions, so much energy into wanting to be

996
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: in the playoffs that thankfully when I played most of

997
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: the years that materialized and being at the playoffs the

998
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: one or two times it didn't. Um. I know there's

999
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: more important things in life than just put ball and

1000
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: go into the playoffs, but it wasn't to me at

1001
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: that time, and I was damn close to heartbroken at

1002
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: this time of the year. So when the playoffs weren't

1003
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: a realistic possibility, when the possibility of going to the

1004
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: super Bowl wasn't there anymore, um, that was a crushing

1005
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: thing for me. So it is a mental yes, at

1006
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: this time of the year week Game seventeen, you have

1007
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: physical issues, you have physical uh ailments that you have

1008
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: to get past to get better and ready to play

1009
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: and stuff. But probably more so now it's the mental

1010
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: aspect of it that you have to come to groups.

1011
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: That's mentally knowing that you're not in the playoffs, but

1012
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: yet somehow Jimmy Johnson line, somehow, some way, I have

1013
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: to motivate and get myself mentally prepared to physically go

1014
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: out there and play, and if you can't, if you're

1015
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: struggling doing that as players, which is absolutely natural. I

1016
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: think one of the things to think about is you

1017
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: have to really think about it in terms of everybody's

1018
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: evaluating you. In a good year, you turn you turn

1019
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,919
Speaker 1: over your team thirty and that's a successful team. So

1020
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: on in losses, you turn over more than a third

1021
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: of your team, So rest assured if you put out performance, uninspired,

1022
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: unthought through, uncompetitive, non violent performance and plays on film

1023
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, not only are you probably

1024
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: writing your ticket out of town. Don't think you want

1025
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: to get out of town, because the grass is not

1026
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: greener in the other thirty one cities and they absolutely

1027
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: are looking at the same film that the Cleveland Browns

1028
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: are looking at right now. And you have to really,

1029
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 1: if we're your younger players, have to have your personal

1030
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: pride from just a business perspective of how blessed we

1031
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: are to be in the NFL, because remember and fell career,

1032
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: the average is three point four one year. So even

1033
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: if you're blessed to be one of the lucky fifty

1034
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: three guys on the roster right now, odds are you're

1035
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: only going to be there less than four years. So

1036
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: to maximize your chance to be on a roster next year,

1037
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: it's imperative that you ball out these last two games

1038
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: because that's exactly what coaches fun off as people and

1039
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: astute personnel guys are looking at this time of the year.

1040
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: Who has heard who finished a strong who loves football,

1041
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: who wants to get out there and still play no

1042
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: matter what. Yeah, you have an opportunity to knock a

1043
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: team out of the playoffs. Obviously, if the Browns can

1044
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: beat the Commanders, there's a scenario in which both Green

1045
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: Bay and Detroit win and that would end the playoff

1046
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: hopes of the Commanders. And then you get the Steelers

1047
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: with a chance to sweep them for the first time

1048
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: since you would even know about that. So you've you

1049
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: did it. That has not happened since, and so there's

1050
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: still a lot in these last two games. I think

1051
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: you're right that a lot of people need to look

1052
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: at this. They're being evaluated on what does this team

1053
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough this year for a variety of reasons,

1054
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: you know what needs to change, And I'm sure some

1055
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: of those evaluations are happening. Can can guys get motivated

1056
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: by that, Bernie? And then can you guys get motivated

1057
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: by the fact that you can end the season of

1058
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: the Commanders and and treat it like it's a playoff game,

1059
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: right And and also on top of that, you can

1060
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: start absolutely building and working on your craft. There's been

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00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: so much said about Deshaun Deshaun Watson and the RPO gang.

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00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: We saw in the terrible conditions against the Saints. We

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00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: saw him run the first touchdown and for a twelve

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00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: are touchdown. The run. You know, people are saying that's

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00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: a great r PO play. Actually it was a quarterback

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00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: designed run, but still showing that Deshaun wats his legs

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00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: and his ability to run and create is absolutely there.

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00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: You know in the we've seen so much of the

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00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: great Nick Stubb through the course of the year. Yeah,

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00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: we want to stunt the commanders Um playoffs, playoff answs.

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00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: But do we want to get it at the expense

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00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: of Nick Chubb running the ball twenty five times? Or

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00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: do we want to see do we want to see

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00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: the seawan be able to drop back and throw and

1075
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: does that help him, does that help him kind of

1076
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: get assimilated and get that rust off of it from

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00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: being after seven hundred days, or does that subject him

1078
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: to the possible injury With with the way Washington comes

1079
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: out of what their front for there's a lot of

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00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: a lot of thought process, a lot of decisions that organizationally,

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00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: coaching wise, you really want to analyze this. We can

1082
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: think through as as you get to get to these

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00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: last two games. Yeah, and and for the Browns. I

1084
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: think getting to Shaun Watson, getting some confidence, getting him

1085
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: looking good in these final two games obviously is important.

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00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: I thought he was going in the right direction. Then

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00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: last week's game, Bernie, it's so hard to even evaluate

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00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: quarterback play in that game. You could see the wind

1089
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 1: have such a massive effect on his passes on Andy

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00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: Dalton's and the Browns, you know, had to pass it

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00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: on that last drive. He had two of them in

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01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: there that could have been caught for game tying touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: None of them were. So how do you even process

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01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: that game? Hey, Naked, I gotta tell you, we've made

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01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: it to week seventeen and I got it, and we've

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01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: been me and you've been doing this for multiple years. Actually,

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01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: for the first time, I think I disagree with you

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: how you said it was hard to analyze the Sewan

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01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: this past Sunday against the Saints because the weather was

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01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: so horrible And I could use a lot of bet

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Speaker 1: squear words right now to add on to how terrible

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Speaker 1: that was from a quarterback perspective. And you look at

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01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: a very pedestrian stats of fifteen for thirty one hundred

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Speaker 1: thirty five yards a pick. I mean that looks like

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Speaker 1: terrible from from a quarterback. I love how the Shawn

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01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: Watson played in the game this past on Saturday. It

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01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 1: was terrible conditions. There was no way that the law

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01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: physics to allow that football to be be thrown with

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Speaker 1: any degree of accuracy, and one does not seem like that.

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01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: But man, I actually love the way he drew the ball.

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01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: He made play at the end of the game. That

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01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: are receivers. I know they're mad at them. I was saying,

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01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: they know they got to come down with it. Man,

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01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: he made a half dozen throws down the field north

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01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: of I know it's only saying twenty yards for pros

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01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like throwing twenty five yards sixty to seventy

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01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: five doesn't seem like a lot in those conditions this

1118
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Speaker 1: past Saturday, that was a nightmare to do. I was

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Speaker 1: massively impressed with his ability to throw the ball um

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Speaker 1: in that win, especially coupled with when he came here

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago as a Houston Texans and

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01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: had winds not quite that bad but terrible, and Deshaun

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Speaker 1: had a rough game to have a colder day with

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Speaker 1: more wind um and worse conditions. Um, I was I

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Speaker 1: actually liked. I really like how de Sean played in

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Speaker 1: that crap on Saturday. So hood, let's get good. Let's

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01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: get that momentum going. And I hope you, hopefully you

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna get some good weather where their conditions

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01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: will not be adverse. It feels like it could be

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01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: pretty good this weekend in Washington, will get to see

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01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: more of Deshaun Watson hopefully slinging it around accurately to

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Speaker 1: Amri and Donovan, People's Jones, David and Joku. Bernie as always,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time, brother, great talking

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01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: to you. Happy New Year to you and your family.

1135
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: And then we'll talk about an opportunity next week to

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01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: sweep the Steelers in the two season, which would be

1137
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: a nice uh nice end to an otherwise bitter sweet season. Awesome, Nathan.

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01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: And to give you there everybody for our listeners out there,

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01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: you matter. God bless you. Happy New Year, Go grounds, Bernie,

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01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: God bless you, my friend. Thank you so much for

1141
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: the time. Bernie, as always brought to you via the

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Speaker 1: it twisted Cleveland. And by the way, if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: the command or seven seven and one on the season,

1160
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: sitting last place in the NFC East, but remain in

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01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: the seven seed right now for the wild card spot

1162
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: in the NFC, the last and final wild card spot.

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01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: Already talked about scenarios. They have a scenario in which

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01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: they could clinch the playoffs in this game. We have

1165
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: a scenario which they could be eliminated from the playoffs

1166
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: in this game as well, and then one where neither

1167
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 1: of those things happens. Uh. They are head coached by

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01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: Ron Riveria, his third season with Commanders twenty six and

1169
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: one overall. They went to the playoffs in twenty twenty.

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01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: The series record all time the Browns lead twelve and one.

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01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: Last meeting was one by the brown September twenty. Nick

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01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: Chubb had over a hundred yards in that game two touchdowns.

1173
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt caught a touchdown in that game, Harrison Bryant

1174
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: at his first ever career touchdown, in Miles Garrett a

1175
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: couple of sacks. Was dominant offensively, They are nineteenth overall,

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01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: twenty four in scoring, defensively fourth overall twelve in scoring,

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01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: there near the top ten and pretty much every defensive category.

1178
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: Very average on offense so far this season. And then

1179
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: they have a negative turnover differential same as the Browns

1180
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: minus three for the year. So they have an opportunity,

1181
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: as we said, to clinch this week or to eliminated

1182
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: this week. Their final game is against the Dallas Cowboys,

1183
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: which would be very interesting because that game potentially could

1184
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: mean nothing to the Cowboys, so they could end up

1185
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: resting people. Given the Commanders a much easier path offensively.

1186
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: They've got a good rookie running back Brian Robinson leads

1187
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: the team with seven hundred and ten yards. Antonio Gibson

1188
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: has not practiced today and could be out. Antonio Gibson

1189
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: has given me a thirteen hundred plus total yards and

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01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns in one He had more than uh a

1191
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: thousand total yards and ten touchdowns in each of his

1192
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: first two seasons. This year, just eight hundred and nine

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01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: total yards five touchdowns for Antonio Gibson in his third

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01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 1: year out of Memphis. Brian Robinson, as I mentioned, the

1195
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 1: leading rusher. They've got good receivers, led by Terry McLaurin

1196
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: going to his first Pro Bowls, his third straight thousand

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Speaker 1: yards season, seventy two catches thousand, ninety two yards and

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns. He needs twenty seven yards for a new

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01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: career high. Uh You've got the rookie Johan Dotson uh

1200
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: twenty nine catches four or fourteen yards, team high seven touchdowns.

1201
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: Also to Samuel sixty two catches six fifty two yards

1202
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: four scores and then tighten Logan Thomas had a season

1203
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: high six catches last week thirty one catches, two yards

1204
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: and a touchdown of his own. They are turning to

1205
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz seeking a spark, according to head coach Ron Rivera,

1206
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: as the team is not one three straight games started

1207
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: by Tyler Heineke, although Heineck is still on the season

1208
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: five three and one is a quarterback for them. Wentz

1209
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: was just to ban four the team saying that Wentz

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01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: will be there. Ron Rivera saying he was looking quote

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01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: for a spark to their offense. The biggest thing is

1212
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: he's more comfortable in what we're doing, and that was

1213
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Speaker 1: evident in the game. He handled situations well, got the

1214
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: ball out. I'ms hot through some nice balls. Decision making

1215
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: is very quick. He got a reset, He had the

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01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 1: opportunity to heal up and feel better. UM talk with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of people, let him know he's thinking, why

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01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: he's making the move. Um informed the entire team of

1219
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback change in a meeting on Wednesday. Heinick obviously

1220
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: not happy at all with the decision. Um he was

1221
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: a fan favorite, obviously there and had done a good

1222
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: job leading this team to victory this season. As I said,

1223
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: have three and one twelve twelve and one all time.

1224
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: He quarterback them in their playoff loss to the Bucks

1225
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: two years ago. Um and kind of a gritty, some moxie,

1226
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: as they like to say, mobility pension for clutch throws,

1227
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: but ultimately not good enough, and so Carson Wentz will

1228
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 1: get the start once again for the Washington Commanders. Their defense, though,

1229
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, is elite Sweat, Alan Payne, Chase Young.

1230
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 1: These people are loaded, uh tremendous getting after the quarterback.

1231
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: All three have more than seven sacks on the season.

1232
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:31,439
Speaker 1: As I said earlier, they are one of only two

1233
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL to have three players with seven

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01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: or more sacks, led by darn Pain's nine and a half.

1235
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen, who was just named to a second straight

1236
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. He's got seven and a half. Um Montes

1237
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,440
Speaker 1: Sweat has seven on the season, although he has not

1238
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 1: recorded a sack in the three straight games. Gibbe, you

1239
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: try to trick me on here. You give the nine

1240
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: and a half to Jonathan Allen and the seven and

1241
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: a half to Pain. But fortunately I had done my research.

1242
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: It's backwards, that's all right. Career high for drown Pain.

1243
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: Allan's the pro bowler. I could see why you think

1244
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: that he would be leading. Both have sixteen tackles for

1245
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: loss I mentioned earlier. That's third in the NFL, number

1246
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: one amongst guys on the interior. On the back end,

1247
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: Derek Forrest, their fifth round pick last year, leads the

1248
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 1: team with four interceptions. That's a career high for him.

1249
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: He has played very, very well. They've got their third

1250
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 1: round pick from last year, Benjamin st Juice at one corner,

1251
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller at the other corner. And as I said,

1252
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: they play a lot of nickels, so Bobby McCain gets

1253
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: a lot of work in the slot as well. Last

1254
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: year he led the team with four interceptions. He does

1255
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: not have one yet this season. All right, when we

1256
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Speaker 1: come back, we are going to play a little better

1257
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: or worse. Anthony Poisel joining us in studio. You're listening

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Speaker 1: Jason Gibbs Anthony Poisel in studio now as well. All right, Gibbe,

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Speaker 1: what do you got for us? First? The little breaking

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01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: news in the National Football League out of Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback carousel around the NFL continues. The Raiders official

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01:09:56,439 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: officially benching Derek Carr. Jared's stid him will start the

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01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,799
Speaker 1: final two games now. According to reports out of Las Vegas,

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01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 1: car will be inactive for the final two. There's not

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01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: another quarterback vic Vic Taffer reporting. If the Raiders sit

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01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: Derek Carr Sunday like it is being reported, it will

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01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,640
Speaker 1: be the fourth game he misses in nine seasons, and

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Speaker 1: the first not due to injury. His salary of thirty

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01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: three million next year and seven and a half million

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01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: become guaranteed if he gets hurt this year. The front

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01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: office met the last two nights to decide on the

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01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: course of action. I don't know who the backup is,

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01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: but according to the Athletic, the Athletic is reporting that

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Speaker 1: he will be inactive for the last two games. Yeah,

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01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,719
Speaker 1: so they don't want him to get hurt. They've decided

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01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: that they're going in a different direction and they're basically

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01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,639
Speaker 1: saying that he will not be playing for them. Uh,

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: he will not be. Here's no guaranteed money with would it?

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01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 1: So obviously there this is an injury guarantee that they're

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01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: gonna say. They're only gonna it's only gonna cost him

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01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: like five point six million. I think mc daniel said.

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01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:11,679
Speaker 1: There's a lot to be sorted through once this season

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01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 1: is over. Regarding the quarterbacks position. There, wow, man, So

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01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: the start the season with Davante Adams and and end

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01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: with that man not great high poisel, Well back to

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01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: back days, baby steps, young man. Here we go higher

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Speaker 1: or lower, presented by our great friends at the Ohio Lottery. Uh,

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01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: and we'll kick things off right now higher. I am

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01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: not going to talk about the Browns being ranked six.

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01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 1: Hold on real quick, one thing right now? The Raiders

1302
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 1: don't want the injury guarantee for Derek Carter trigger, but

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01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 1: the option gets guaranteed anyway on February. Tents or release

1304
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 1: or trade is going to have to happen before February.

1305
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: Which is this like right after the Super Bowl? No,

1306
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: it's right before before the super Bowl February. Can they

1307
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: cut him before the super Bowl? You might not have

1308
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 1: a choice based on I'm pretty sure the super Bowl

1309
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: is can you do? Huh wow? There it is? Man, Wow.

1310
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is Sunday, February twelve. And they don't have

1311
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: a very good draft pick either. Jets, Jets, Colts. Where

1312
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 1: is it gonna be playing next year? Tampa Baby, Yeah,

1313
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 1: some team will take him, but just you have Davante

1314
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: Adams this year and before the season's over. Yeah, alright.

1315
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: We moved of on higher or lower the following team's

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01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: higher closer to number one or lower closer to number to.

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01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: The forty Niners come in at number one on Dan

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Speaker 1: Hansis's Power rankings. I don't have this on the list,

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01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: but I have to go to the foremost authority on

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:25,679
Speaker 1: the forty Niners. Pedro not Pedro. Are the forty Niners

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01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: properly ranked in this Power Poll week seventeen in the

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01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: National Football League. I mean, it's hard to imagine a

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01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 1: team with Brock pretty a quarterback would be number one.

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01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: But who wants to play them? They blow everybody out?

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01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: They are a un says it. The Niners are a

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01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: fully formed death machine, destroying everything in their way. Yeah,

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01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: it's this defense has been so good. Party is three

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01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 1: and oh as a starter, he's getting the ball to

1329
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: George Kittle Kittles all of a sudden, a big factory

1330
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: in the offense. Again, He's thrown multiple passing touchdowns in

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01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: every single game in his first three starts, which is

1332
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 1: something that only Kurt Warner has done in the modern era,

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01:13:57,360 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: and he went on to win the Super Bowl that year.

1334
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: This is it's unbelievable what they're doing. But yeah, I'm

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01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: with it. I wouldn't want to play them. Yeah, no,

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01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: I agree. It's it's, as Nathan said, unbelievable. And you know,

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like, when is the last time a

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01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: team this late in the season was number one in

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01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 1: the Power rankings or number one in anything, or one

1340
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: of the top teams when they had a quarterback that

1341
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 1: wasn't one of those sort of like the top tier

1342
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: echelon of guys and not even someone this is a

1343
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 1: guy who's Mr. Relevant. He's got their quarterback. Yeah, like,

1344
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 1: when was the last time that this happened? Like it

1345
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: was just like Nick Foles maybe with the Eagles, Like

1346
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 1: I I don't know, but it's it's incredible what they've done.

1347
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 1: Nick Foles was at least like had been exactly like

1348
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can rank that in

1349
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: the same category. But I mean, the running game has

1350
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: been great. Warner came from bagging groceries in the real

1351
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: league and then went to the Super Bowl. I mean, yeah,

1352
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: I talked about yesterday, but like you know, pretty has

1353
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: a real chance of making Trey Lands a backup quarterback

1354
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: next year, which is pretty pretty fascinating. So it's going

1355
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: to be so yeah, I don't have any problem with

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01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: nine just being number one here. Next the Philadelphia Eagles

1357
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: are number umber two, The Buffalo Bills are number three.

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01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: That takes us to number four in the Cincinnati Bengals.

1359
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: Poisel higher lower or just right? Yeah, this is just right.

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01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: I'm still okay with them being slotted Really anywhere from

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01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: two to five, um four is fine. They could have

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01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,679
Speaker 1: had I think a much better argument for being higher

1363
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,759
Speaker 1: if they didn't make things so close against the Paths.

1364
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: But um, they've won seventh straight and uh, you know,

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01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: they're arguably just as good as any of the other

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01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: teams in front of them on this list. So it's

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01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: very it's very tight between I think one and four

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01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 1: or five on this list. I think that's fine, and

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01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: then we'll have an answer on Monday Night if they

1370
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: were going to go up to number two or number three.

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01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: You know, Bills Bengals huge game, so that's gonna store

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Speaker 1: itself out. So right now, I'm fine with the Bills

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01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: being third, the Bengals being fourth. We'll see can the

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01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: Bill stop? What is Bengals juggernaut again here in the

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01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: second half of the season. I don't know if I've

1376
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: looked more forward to a Monday night matchup. Yeah, I

1377
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: was thinking that it's gonna be good and I'm going

1378
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 1: to outside of our stuff, I'm going against Josh Allen

1379
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:03,640
Speaker 1: and Diggs in the finals, so I will be watching that.

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01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: You have I got in that game. I don't think

1381
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: anything I could play game days. I better be up

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01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 1: a lot YEA. Yeah, I wouldn't feel Comfortablens. I was

1383
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 1: up like sixty and even then, I don't know how

1384
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: comfortable I feel. Interesting. Yeah, I can't wait Diggs. That

1385
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,759
Speaker 1: was really cooled Off of late knock on Wood. Diggs

1386
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: has not been putting up numbers lately. Maybe we need

1387
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: a little Manning cast. But just with us, just fantasy

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01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: Mark Monica Love Monica next alright? Number five, the Kansas

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01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, number six, the Dallas Cowboys, number seven, the

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01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:57,560
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings the girl higher lower or just right for Minnesota.

1391
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 1: I mean, look, everybody wants to knock this team, but

1392
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:05,440
Speaker 1: they just keep winning, so it's it's hard to really see.

1393
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: You know, where you would to make them lower? They

1394
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:10,760
Speaker 1: just win. They know what to do. Eleven and oh

1395
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: and one score games justin Jefferson's a stud, Hockinson's a stud.

1396
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: Are they flawed? Yeah? Would would they beat the Chargers?

1397
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think you got I think

1398
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: that it's about right. I just think it just shows that,

1399
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: like the Chargers, I think could make a run when

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01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 1: they get Bosa back and they're healthy, and I think

1401
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 1: they have the ability to the talent to make like

1402
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: a real run. Can the Vikings win the NFC? I

1403
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: don't know, but why not a team that goes eleven

1404
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,240
Speaker 1: and oh in one score games. I mean, that's that

1405
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 1: is so huge for the playoffs. I was even gonna say,

1406
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: I think you can move them in front of the

1407
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys on this list by the Cowboys, understood, But the

1408
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:50,640
Speaker 1: Cowboys lost to the Jaguars two weeks ago. In the

1409
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: Vikings ever since that game have played much much better.

1410
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: Are we talking right now? Are we talking? I mean

1411
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: they're in the there in that area. I think like

1412
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: after the top five teams, you know, Dallas, Minnesota Chargers,

1413
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: those are the next ones. Green Bay has got to

1414
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: move up because I don't think anybody wants to play

1415
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 1: them right now. But I think that's where I think

1416
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 1: it's about right. I'm just saying it just in general,

1417
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: looking at the whole landscape, that's where that next group is.

1418
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: I think that the Vikings are fine. They can make

1419
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: the case they're six because I think you gotta be

1420
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:24,839
Speaker 1: behind it. I mean, they get smoked by him so badly,

1421
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: But then the Chargers are coming up taking out the

1422
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: game against each other. Would you vote Sirianni or O'Connell

1423
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: for Coach of the Year in the NFC m Sirians

1424
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: had a great job. I mean needs right there to

1425
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 1: the Coach of the Year races. I think it's pretty

1426
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: close right now, Like the Coach the Year and m

1427
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: VP are all like there's it's tight. You're trying to

1428
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: come down to these final two weeks, was Peter King

1429
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: said earlier in the week on his Football Morning in America.

1430
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 1: If you sit out you risk losing a lot, or

1431
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: if you are out because of injury, you risk losing

1432
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 1: a lot here in these final two weeks. Lower the

1433
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: Chargers are number eight, Jacksonville is number nine, and number

1434
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:15,080
Speaker 1: ten the Baltimore Ravens poisl higher. Lower or just right

1435
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: for the reet Bird. Um, I'm going lower. I'm going

1436
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 1: worse here because just looking at what the Packers have done,

1437
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 1: I don't know again we're going to get to them,

1438
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:24,839
Speaker 1: but you know they're at twelve. I'd put the Packers

1439
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:26,719
Speaker 1: here at ten over the Ravens because I just think

1440
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: they are more complete team right now. Um, but then

1441
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,320
Speaker 1: I'd go to Ravens with eleven and or even twelve.

1442
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: I think you can make the case that the Lions

1443
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:35,719
Speaker 1: are also better right now. I just don't think Tyler

1444
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: hunt Lee would help the Ravens beat any of these

1445
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: top ten teams, and they've had a really easy schedule

1446
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 1: with him, And I think the Packers beating the Dolphin

1447
01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: shows that they belong in the top ten over the Ravens.

1448
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: But um, I'm really curious to see what the Ravens

1449
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: look like when Lamar is back and how much improved

1450
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 1: that offense is. Uh, defensively, obviously they've been lights out,

1451
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 1: but it's just again there they played so many easy

1452
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: teams over the last month month and a half now,

1453
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: and um, I don't know if that's a true gauge

1454
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: of of how ready they are for the playoffs right now.

1455
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: It just shows how quickly it falls off. But the

1456
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 1: Ravens need to be lower the Packers. I would take

1457
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: over them right now without any hesitation at all. Are

1458
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: we in agreement that Jacksonville should be lower? I mean,

1459
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 1: but behind who? That's the thing? Yeah, Lions, Ravens, it's

1460
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: all similar. Miami's in a free fall. The Jets and

1461
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: the Giants I don't think are very good. Like there's

1462
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,599
Speaker 1: a big drop off after the Chargers at eight. Yeah,

1463
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: and and and then it's just kind of a crapshoot.

1464
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: And these certain tiers of the power rankings from like

1465
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: nine to I guess you could go to twelve thirteen.

1466
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: Like it's just after after the charges, it gets very

1467
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: jumbled and hands has said they coasted to a nineteen

1468
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,839
Speaker 1: three win over the Jets Thursday night. There was no coasting,

1469
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: ugly game, and Zack Wilson sucks. That's why. Yeah, I

1470
01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: just I don't know if i'd put Jackson all that.

1471
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to crown them anything yet. Although if

1472
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,480
Speaker 1: you noticed on their social media they put their postseason

1473
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 1: tickets on sale today. Well, I saw the Panthers did

1474
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: that too. I think that's just something that teams have

1475
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: to do when when they're still in it this late

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01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: in the season, right or I mean, it's still ridiculous

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01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: to think have an answer on that. Possibly, I mean, yeah,

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01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 1: next lower. The Detroit Lions are number eleven. They came

1479
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:27,520
Speaker 1: down to earth after that lost to Charlotte. The Packers

1480
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 1: are number twelve. I'm gonna go to number thirteen to

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01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: give us a little space. The Miami Dolphins, uhia higher

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01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 1: lower or just right, no idea. I think they're probably

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01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: just right. I'm not big on the Giants, not big

1484
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: on the Jets, the Commanders are interesting, but again, don't

1485
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,880
Speaker 1: love their quarterback situation. I mean, all these I think

1486
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: they're just right there, better than the teams behind them,

1487
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: but they're not going I'm not putting them ahead of

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01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:57,600
Speaker 1: any of the the teams ahead of them. It feels like

1489
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 1: their offense has been found out a little bit. It

1490
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: and to what is struggling now, he's got a concussion,

1491
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 1: their defense hasn't been dominant. It's they're I think they're

1492
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 1: appropriately ranked. I wouldn't put him in the top twelve.

1493
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: And although I do think like could they beat the

1494
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 1: Ravens right now? Probably, but who knows. Yeah, it just

1495
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: feels like it felt like you blinked and they went

1496
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: from an eight and three team to an eight and

1497
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: seven team. I mean that's what that's what a four

1498
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: game losing streak will do for you, obviously, but but yeah,

1499
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: it's just it's not even like this is a team

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01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 1: that's falling back to Earth. It just feels like they're

1501
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 1: just severely underperforming right now and really missing out on

1502
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: a chance to they they've already missed out on a

1503
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:36,799
Speaker 1: chance to establish themselves as kind of like this late season,

1504
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: even like a super Bowl contender. I they they're they're

1505
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: playing so much differently than than how they did in

1506
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, and um, I think

1507
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 1: just right at thirteen. I I kind of agree with Nathan,

1508
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: like I don't really know where they put the Dolphins

1509
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: right now after such a bad last month. Yeah, and

1510
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 1: the uncertainty of TA now as well, that's big. Yeah.

1511
01:22:56,160 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 1: Next the g Men number fourteen, the Jets number fifteen,

1512
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:07,719
Speaker 1: the Comies sixteen, and Pitts Puke is number seven teen.

1513
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: Poisel higher lower or just right for the Pukers, Yeah,

1514
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: I think I think this is just right for them,

1515
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: which is again crazy because you know, a month ago

1516
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:20,680
Speaker 1: they were in the like mid to lower twenties and

1517
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: most of the powering because it felt like and now

1518
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: they've they've just bounced all the way back. I mean,

1519
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: their defense is playing really well and given him a

1520
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: chance to make the playoffs, which is just this is

1521
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 1: what this is what they do this time of year.

1522
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about it yesterday, and this is

1523
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 1: how the Steelers play in December. Um so I just right,

1524
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 1: seventeen is fine. The girl it's just crazy, like how

1525
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: Seattle is free fall and how the Raiders have free fallen,

1526
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: How the Titans have free fallen, How the Bucks are

1527
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: not good, How the Patriots are not good. Carolina is

1528
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,640
Speaker 1: good one week, bad the next week. They're strange team.

1529
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: It's probably just right, just on the strength of Mike

1530
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: Tomlin and his will and his ability to coerce them

1531
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: into making blaze when they've got to make them. Just

1532
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: makes me angry because if things fall their away, that

1533
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: game next week against US could mean something. Yeah, wild

1534
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:17,160
Speaker 1: infuriates me. Next Carolina, I'm sorry. Patriots eighteen, Panthers nineteen,

1535
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: number twenty another team. I have no idea what to

1536
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: make of Tampa Bay higher lower or just right? Uh,

1537
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: poise out. Yeah, I'm fine with this too, But the

1538
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: Bucks are still like like where do you where do

1539
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: you rank them? You don't know where? I feel like

1540
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: that you can really say that about the Bucks. You

1541
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: can say that about the Panthers at nineteen, like really

1542
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:40,280
Speaker 1: from eighteen maybe starting with the Patriots, and you can

1543
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 1: even throw the Steelers in there, so seventeen through all

1544
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: the way through the Browns at twenty six will just

1545
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 1: counter last like scramble those teams anywhere, and like that's

1546
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: you can make sense that like any of those teams

1547
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: can beat any of those other teams any other week.

1548
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just I mean, the Bucks. I

1549
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: feel like I have been the perfect team of mediocrity

1550
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: this season, right Like they they look okay one week

1551
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: and then bad the next, are really bad the next

1552
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: and I don't even know if okay, it's actually that's

1553
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:09,679
Speaker 1: probably positive a word. Um, But sure Bucks at twenty

1554
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,760
Speaker 1: I'll take it. It's fine. I mean, and they could

1555
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,799
Speaker 1: win their division a big game. That's fine. My airing

1556
01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: of the grievances as I go through this is at

1557
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: the back end of this power ranking he has Denver

1558
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: is the worst team in the NFL. Okay, the Colts

1559
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: thirty one, the Cardinals thirty, the Bears twenty nine, the

1560
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 1: gutless Falcons, and the Texans seven. We are twenty six.

1561
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:37,800
Speaker 1: By the way, I feel like the Texans need to

1562
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: be much lower. Um. They played that. They took like

1563
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to overtime. They played Dallas tight. They're like

1564
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: playing people tight. That's what he's what we did too,

1565
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: and we went yeah, I know, great, Yeah, I mean

1566
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,559
Speaker 1: we lost to the Falcons, who are down here. I mean,

1567
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: the Broncos as good as their defense. Ben, they just

1568
01:25:57,320 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 1: gave up fifty him in my Fantasy semi finals again

1569
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: zero points. Our good friend Justin Casanzo, Hello, Justin Okay

1570
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: was up by three point seven points. His team was done,

1571
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: the other team was done. But he had. All he

1572
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,040
Speaker 1: had left was a defense, which was the Denver defense

1573
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: against the Rams that need scored zero scored negative four,

1574
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: and he lost because he had to happen. Yeah. Worst,

1575
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 1: That's the worst beat I've ever heard. He like sitting

1576
01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:26,280
Speaker 1: there watching the game, like just pulling his hair out

1577
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and you're just that's crazy. Merry Christmas,

1578
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: hope all my friend man, Yeah, that's just that's lunacy.

1579
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 1: And that is higher or lower presented by our great

1580
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 1: friends at the Ohio Lottery. Yeah, wild, poor justin hate

1581
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,639
Speaker 1: to see it. Not cool, Broncos, not cool. That's at

1582
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 1: that place. That's that was an absolute debacle. We said

1583
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: it week one. We're like, this is a debacle, absolute debacle. Alright, ap,

1584
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: great stuff. We'll be back wrapping things up. Final thoughts here.

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01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,280
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01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 1: on the preview show tonight, second to last of the season.

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01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz he will start for the Commanders in a

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01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 1: playoff game for them against the Cleveland Browns this Sunday

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01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:43,000
Speaker 1: in d C. And Derek Carr out as the starting

1595
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Raiders in Vegas. The Next level is next.

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01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Thanks to Bernie Cozar for joining us for Jason Gibbs.

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01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:52,840
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