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Speaker 1: in Barrie, Ohio. This is Cleveland Browns Daily, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Bally bet Now Live in Ohio on eight.

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Speaker 2: To fifty ESPN. Cleveland look like a video game. The

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Speaker 2: scott looked like they were straight out of Madden Now.

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Speaker 2: They were clicking, you know, all three levels. When I

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Speaker 2: They were there one point and we're gonna need them

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Speaker 2: to be like that. Maybe not quite as down nest today,

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Speaker 2: but you know they're gonna have to be on the

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Speaker 2: same page, you know, throughout this stretch.

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Speaker 3: Flaco from under center from the twenty five late bake

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Speaker 3: to hunt and a roll out to the left, blacko

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Speaker 3: ice downfield, deep shot left sideline once.

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Speaker 4: Cooper he hasn't funny for the twenty at the.

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Speaker 3: Ten touchdown, So Bory Cooper is in the episode with

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Speaker 4: Borry Cooper did it again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of takeaways, Zadarius getting two sacks, which

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Speaker 5: I thought was outstanding. Uh, you know, harassing the quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I thought our defense was really good.

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Speaker 3: You gotta get to the forty seven, can't under pressure

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Speaker 3: now flushed out to the right, Chase by right spins

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Speaker 4: SA Darius Smith five. Get one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know the dbs, most of the times

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Speaker 6: most quarterbacks have played with smaller body receivers, and so

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Speaker 6: I have to remind them sometime because you know, we

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Speaker 6: you could just throw it up, Like these guys are

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Speaker 4: For Flaco gun waiting for it.

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Speaker 3: Three of the flight pumps, the leg takes the snap,

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Speaker 3: Flaco firing into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Cooper touch down. Oh, MARII Cooper does it again? Are

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Speaker 4: you kidding me? Joe Flaco three hundred plus three touchdown

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Speaker 4: on the day. Amari Cooper now over two hundred yards,

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Speaker 4: his second touchdown on the day, his eighth catch. What

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Speaker 4: a clinic being put on by the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Bow Bishop and Nathan Segura.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, and welcome in to a victory Monday edition

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Speaker 4: of Cleveland Browns Daily, brought to you by Bally Betta

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Speaker 4: sports betting partner of your Cleveland Browns. I hope everybody

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Speaker 4: had a great Christmas yesterday for those who celebrate it,

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Speaker 4: because your Brown's delivered in early present down there in

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Speaker 4: Houston thirty six to twenty two, beating the Houston Texans

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Speaker 4: to get their tenth win on the season. Your ten

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Speaker 4: and five Cleveland Browns, Gibbe. This team is so fun.

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Speaker 4: But before we get into all that, how is your

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Speaker 4: day yesterday? How is Christmas? How did it all go down?

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Speaker 4: I know you did a lot of hosting and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: It was a It was not a day off. There's

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Speaker 4: definitely not a day of rest. No, no, no no.

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Speaker 7: I think I left here at about eleven fifteen Sunday night,

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Speaker 7: after we got done unloading everything and then already filling

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Speaker 7: out plans for the week so we could hit the

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Speaker 7: ground running this morning. It was good man. Family had

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Speaker 7: a great time. Maybe a little overserved by a number

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Speaker 7: of people. I kept it under control and was responsible,

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Speaker 7: which usually doesn't happen. But I could see the wheels

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Speaker 7: coming off and I knew I needed to be productive today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they certainly did. There's a lot of joy. We've

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Speaker 4: got to spread the pa.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot to do in a It's a big

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Speaker 7: quick turnaround today, big quick. I don't even know what

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Speaker 7: that means. I've been running in forty different directions here

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Speaker 4: So how about us, gibe, how about us getting to

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Speaker 4: be a part of history down there? And we heard

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Speaker 4: a lot of it in the open. Amari Cooper setting

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Speaker 4: a new Cleveland Brown's franchise record with two hundred and

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Speaker 4: sixty five yards receiving. Mari Cooper setting a new career high.

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Speaker 4: Amari Cooper also with the most receiving yard in a

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Speaker 4: game this season. This is Nathan Segura, and you're listening

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Speaker 4: to eight fifty ESPN Cleveland. I am Nathan Zegura and

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Speaker 4: you are listening to eight fifty ESPN Cleveland. So it's true.

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Speaker 4: But what is also true? Mariy Cooper, As I mentioned,

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Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty five yards, breaking an over decade

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Speaker 4: two thoy and thirteen when he had twohundred and sixty

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Speaker 4: See the numbers there, Titus cur high with eleven catches

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Speaker 4: long with seventy five or maybe that should be touchdowns there,

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Speaker 4: Just an incredible performance.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 4: He joins Terrell Owens as the only two receivers to

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Speaker 4: ever have a two hundred yard receiving game with three

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Speaker 4: different teams. That's incredible. So I guess they said victory

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Speaker 4: Monday at the beginning. It's Tuesday. Hold on, I did

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Speaker 4: it on airlight. We'll be good for you. We're missing

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Speaker 4: we're missing, we're missing Ocho, We're missing Brandon from the

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Speaker 4: video to everybody went down over the weekend. Griff is

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Speaker 4: down with me things. Yes, it is a victory Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: I'm totally thrown off because yesterday being Christmas, It's like

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Speaker 4: I'm in I know, Billy Manson. What day is it October?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know, but what I do

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Speaker 4: know is that this Browns team unbelievable every week. This

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Speaker 4: team is so fun now This one was a laugher.

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Speaker 4: At one point, folks, it was thirty six to seven.

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Speaker 4: This was a laugher. Browns were in complete control at

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Speaker 4: that moment. Now they take all the starters out, the

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Speaker 4: second team defense gives up a touchdown on side kick

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Speaker 4: twenty two and the Starrys had to come back in

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Speaker 4: that got a Mari one more catch for thirteen yards,

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Speaker 4: which put him from two fifty two to two sixty

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Speaker 4: You know this team is doing historic things on the

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Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball, you get to some historic

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Speaker 4: things on the offensive side of the ball. Joe Flacco

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Speaker 4: in this game, throwing for three hundred and sixty eight yards,

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Speaker 4: becoming only the second quarterback in Brown's history, joining Josh

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Speaker 4: McCown to throw for more than three hundred yards in

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Speaker 4: three straight games. He set the record now for the

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Speaker 4: most passing yards and passing touchdowns in Brown's history for

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's unbelievable what he did. Zadarius Smith dominant.

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Speaker 4: That's what we all expected all season, and he really

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Speaker 4: has been domint He just hasn't gotten the sacks. Well,

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Speaker 4: tip pass that led to dron Harmon's interception. But as

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Speaker 4: seems to be the case with the Cleveland Browns, and

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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to, you know, get a little grinchy here,

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Speaker 4: these victories are coming with a price. They are coming

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Speaker 4: with the price of injury, and every single week it

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Speaker 4: feels like the Browns are adding to that Listen, in

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Speaker 4: this one, it was really due to who a failure

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Speaker 4: on special teams. You give up, you go fourteen to

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Speaker 4: you get Dustin Hopkins hurt on that play. Kevin Stefanski

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Speaker 4: said he is week to week. He will not play

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Speaker 4: on Thursday. Riley Patterson will be the Browns kicker on Thursday.

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Speaker 4: In his third NFL season out of Memphis. He was

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Speaker 4: signed by the Vikings in twenty twenty one. Thirty seven

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Speaker 4: on Pats. This season, he appeared in thirteen games with

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Speaker 4: Dustin Hopkins, he gets hurt. We know, d hop he's

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Speaker 4: don't know if he'll get a chance to do that.

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Speaker 4: He's been the best kicker in the NFL quite frankly,

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Speaker 4: He's a first team All Pro in my book, and

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Speaker 4: a Pro Bowler. But then Corey Bijorkez had to handle

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Speaker 4: He has booted four hundred and twenty nine career punts

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Speaker 4: Work has been a weapon flipping the field. And then

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Speaker 4: it was thirty six to seven, six minutes to go,

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Speaker 4: I believe in the fourth quarter, and the Browns had

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Speaker 4: six to one hundred and six. They were spectacular. The

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Speaker 4: against the backups. Starters did not allow a single point.

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Speaker 4: In fact, the starters played so well Case Keenum got

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Speaker 4: Zadarius Smith two sacks in this one really had three,

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Speaker 4: had one white out on a penalty, had a hit

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Speaker 4: that led directly to an interception. He was playing like

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Speaker 4: the Pro Bowl. Zadarius Smith, Miles Garrett dominant as always.

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Speaker 4: Still no sacks, he was right there. A couple tackles

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Speaker 4: for a loss though Joka back to back weeks now

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Speaker 4: with an interception. The guy's unreal. The Anthony Bell forces

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Speaker 4: It was so doable. Now it would require the Steelers,

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Speaker 4: Stefanski is ten and oh against the AFC South, never lost, never,

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Speaker 4: We're playing, I mean the first quarter. Hey, I once

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Speaker 4: Kevin's fancy is gonna give you all the updates there.

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Speaker 4: We told you at the top about Hop D Hop

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Speaker 4: got twisted up by one of the Texans. He's on

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Speaker 4: IR now with a hip PJ. Walker back to the

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Speaker 4: He will back up Joe flackon and I would expect

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Speaker 4: Here's your head coach Kevin Stefanski.

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Speaker 5: Coach Salah Well, I know a bunch of their coaches.

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Speaker 5: They have very good players, really good schemes. So you

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Speaker 5: got to go to get your homework done during a

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Speaker 5: short week. You don't have the same amount of practices,

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Speaker 5: you don't have the same amount of walkthroughs, meetings, etc.

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Speaker 5: So you really have to do a good job as

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Speaker 5: coaches and as players of preparing for Thursday night and then,

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Speaker 5: as you know, getting your bodies ready for Thursday night

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Speaker 5: is another challenge for both sides, but offensively, you know,

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Speaker 5: score a bunch of points last week versus Washington, possessed

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Speaker 5: the football for a long time and I thought played

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Speaker 5: really well. Ever, Simion's a guy that I know. We'll

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Speaker 5: see how that plays out over the course of this week.

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Speaker 5: But Trevor's a guy that has played and won in

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Speaker 5: this league. Zach Wilson's extremely athletic, can make all this throws,

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Speaker 5: so we'll see how that plays out. But really good players.

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Speaker 5: I think Garrett Wilson's as good as there is in

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Speaker 5: the NFL. Really, he's a special player. So we'll have

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Speaker 5: our hands full when we're facing their offense. Defensively, again,

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Speaker 5: coach Solid, coach Roll Brik.

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Speaker 8: They do a great job.

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Speaker 5: It's a scheme that is similar to ours. There's enough difference,

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Speaker 5: you know, in some of the things that they do

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Speaker 5: versus what we do on defense. But really good players,

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Speaker 5: great players in the back end, great players up front,

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Speaker 5: linebackers that can run. And then special teams. They're ranked

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Speaker 5: very high, good specialist sound schemes. So we'll have to

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Speaker 5: really be about our business on Thursday. On the injury front,

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Speaker 5: Dustin Hopkins is week to week with his injury. He

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Speaker 5: will not play this week, and then Dorian Thompson Robinson

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Speaker 5: will go on ir with a hip injury unfortunately that

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Speaker 5: he suffered in that last ball game. So disappointed for

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Speaker 5: both those guys, but we'll obviously continue to get the

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Speaker 5: guys ready and with that, I'll take any questions. It

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Speaker 5: was when he got, you know, bent up a little

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Speaker 5: bit there during the game.

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Speaker 10: What about the hard kid.

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Speaker 5: We'll see, not sure yet.

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Speaker 10: And who would be your holder?

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Speaker 8: He can't do it working through it.

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Speaker 5: It would be the punter.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, hard to get hurt the kickoffs, Yes, just

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Speaker 11: because it's unusual.

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Speaker 2: Exactly what do you think he's gonna do any.

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Speaker 12: Thursday night at the stadium or you talk about it?

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Speaker 4: Everybody electric?

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Speaker 8: Electric?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't wait. You know, our fans have been

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Speaker 5: incredible all season long. I feel like I say that

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Speaker 5: over and over, but I mean it. I can't wait

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Speaker 5: to get down there. Our team can't wait to get

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Speaker 5: down there. Just need them to behave themselves for most

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Speaker 5: of the day so that they're able to be with

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Speaker 5: us in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 13: Kevin, what about Rightley in the initial conversations with.

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Speaker 5: Him, and I guess yeah, it came into a nice

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Speaker 5: job and his workout obviously has has a production in

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Speaker 5: this league and in this season. So a guy would comfortable.

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Speaker 14: With how much is uh he kicked with the Jaguars

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Speaker 14: all last year, kicked in the playoffs. How important is

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Speaker 14: that that he has supposed to an experience?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just the experience period is important when

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Speaker 5: when it comes to a kicker in this situation. But

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Speaker 5: a guy that that I think had a good workout,

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Speaker 5: has good tape, believe in him. He's down to the

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Speaker 5: stadium today, correct, Yes, And.

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Speaker 4: The amount of injuries of fact, your kick coverage team

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Speaker 4: last week that allowed that long term.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think that's fair to say. I think

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Speaker 5: what we we need to be better? Uh and and

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Speaker 5: we will.

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Speaker 13: Be guys talked about you know that Jets game last

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Speaker 13: year and watching that back and stuff. I mean, just

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Speaker 13: how crazy is it to look at where you guys

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Speaker 13: are now Joe is in this building for example, and looking.

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Speaker 6: Back to ye.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, as you know, Ashley, these you can't

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Speaker 5: predict this league. That's why everybody watches and Yeah, things

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Speaker 5: you know happen throughout the courses of seasons and that

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Speaker 5: type of thing, and faces change and different people come

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Speaker 5: in so in a lot of ways it's similar teams schematically,

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Speaker 5: and then in a lot of ways it's different.

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Speaker 12: You've had success taken deep shots, you know, with this offense,

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Speaker 12: but it just feels like with Joe, you guys are

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Speaker 12: connected on more of those opportunities.

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Speaker 8: Why do you think that is? And just what type

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Speaker 8: of a you.

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Speaker 12: Know, shot in the arm has that long game with

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Speaker 12: Joe infused?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's it's always dependent on the scheme

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Speaker 5: that you're playing oftentimes, and then with shots, there's games,

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Speaker 5: there's you go a bunch of games in a row,

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Speaker 5: you hit all of them. You go a bunch of

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Speaker 5: the games in a row, you can't hit a shot.

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Speaker 5: It just it does come and go as well.

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Speaker 15: Like Joe, do you just have to live with some

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Speaker 15: of those interceptions or are you verbalizing to him that

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Speaker 15: he needs to cut down well?

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Speaker 5: And I wouldn't necessarily call him a gunsling, you're a

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Speaker 5: mary kay. The interceptions themselves, I mean, the deep shot

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Speaker 5: to Marquise was a shot, you know, we encourage him

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Speaker 5: if that if you got a similar look, I don't

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Speaker 5: think maybe the ball hung out more than he wanted

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Speaker 5: it to. And then the one at the end of

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Speaker 5: the half. You know, a normal situation, you're kicking a

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Speaker 5: field goal and those don't happen. So I appreciate that

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Speaker 5: he's just given our guys a chance in that situation.

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Speaker 15: Did you just not like what.

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Speaker 10: You guys saw that the Anthony Bell to kick that

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Speaker 10: last one?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't want to put those guys in a

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Speaker 5: tough spot even where we were. I know it's a

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Speaker 5: shorter field goal, but the operation you could get it blocked.

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Speaker 5: I just didn't feel like that was the right thing

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Speaker 5: to do.

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Speaker 10: Had a hamsterring issue when he was out in La.

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Speaker 8: Is this the same hamsterring? I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure worse or better that it's the point like,

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Speaker 5: probably better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kicking like though left right, So that's not good.

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Speaker 5: We'll see, well, your immersed and kickers get a little

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Speaker 5: work this week to practice.

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Speaker 16: Just a kid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we feel good about that, you know, obviously we

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Speaker 5: feel good about our plan. We know, you know we'll

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Speaker 5: have too healthy, We'll have a kicker and a punter

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Speaker 5: that we feel good about.

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Speaker 12: We know that Kevin has the seamlessness with with which

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Speaker 12: Joe has stepped in. Has that even exceeded your expectations

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Speaker 12: for what he would able to be able to do

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Speaker 12: so early on take it over for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say, you know, being around some of those

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Speaker 5: veterans over the years, Jake, They've seen a lot of football,

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Speaker 5: They've played a lot of football, They've been in different systems.

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Speaker 5: So I think there's guys that with that amount of

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Speaker 5: turns and with that amount of years in different systems, Uh,

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Speaker 5: they can come in and operate pretty quickly. Now, you've

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Speaker 5: got to be very intelligent and you got to work

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Speaker 5: like crazy to do it. And I think Joe's done

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Speaker 5: both those things. But I think there's enough similarity to

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Speaker 5: the things that we're doing that he's done in the past,

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Speaker 5: and I think he could he could lean into that experience.

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Speaker 8: The fact that the arm looks like this, who are

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Speaker 8: you pointing to when you see.

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Speaker 12: The fact that he's you know, his arm looks like

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Speaker 12: it did when he first step in the leave, what

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Speaker 12: do you make it at.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great gift from God. I guess you know,

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Speaker 5: he blessed him with with that ability and all those

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Speaker 5: characters that you're talking about.

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Speaker 13: Does that allowed Joe that extra half click to.

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Speaker 8: Allow place to develop on field? For the routes to

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Speaker 8: get deeper, all those kinds of things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, I think the big thing Tom is

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Speaker 5: he does have the ability to push the ball down

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Speaker 5: the field and to all areas of the field, so

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Speaker 5: not just the deep ball, but to be able to

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Speaker 5: throw the ball from the from the right hash all

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Speaker 5: the way outside of the left hash. I mean those

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Speaker 5: are plays that obviously Joe can push the ball down

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Speaker 5: the field. Mario, this game, like you did against Houston,

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Speaker 5: do you expect a nice defense to go above and

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Speaker 5: beyond and try to take him away. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 5: I've seen it all when it comes to a mari

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Speaker 5: in terms of attention. You know, you can cloud him,

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Speaker 5: you can rotate a safety over the top and cover two.

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Speaker 5: You can take your post safety and lean to him.

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Speaker 5: You can bracket him. So we've really seen it all.

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Speaker 5: Even on that first play, I mean it's quarters, he's

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Speaker 5: getting bracketed, but he ran through the brackets. He gets attention.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't mean that he can't still win, but it

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Speaker 5: does open up opportunities for all the other players.

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Speaker 15: Or he was talking about this the other day that

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Speaker 15: he knows that even if Joe's getting dragged down, that

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Speaker 15: that doesn't mean the play is over because he has

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Speaker 15: the arm to git all the way across field even

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Speaker 15: when he's you know, almost on his back. So you know,

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Speaker 15: how does that help you guys, like it's just never over?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's It's a good point, Mary kay,

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Speaker 5: because that play in particular, Joe's so big, he's got

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Speaker 5: people draped all over him. But he's hard to bring

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Speaker 5: down and has the arm talent. He doesn't need to

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Speaker 5: step into it. He can let it go with his

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Speaker 5: wrist and still put enough on the ball. So that's

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Speaker 5: that's again a factor of his ability. But also, you know,

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Speaker 5: we've made plays off schedule, We've made some scramble drill plays, which,

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Speaker 5: as you know, are so important and hard to find. Sometimes.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and I hear you say, curse Dad, you take

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Speaker 12: shots and sometimes it doesn't work.

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Speaker 16: But his ability, how much does that open up the

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Speaker 16: playbook for you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know a lot of the players were running.

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Speaker 5: You know, you just continue to run different iterations of

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Speaker 5: things that you've done. But again, like we've talked about before,

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Speaker 5: there's with shot plays quote unquote, you still have a read.

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Speaker 5: You have a top down read oftentimes in that regard,

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Speaker 5: So if the top guy is open, you give him

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Speaker 5: an opportunity, and then if he's not, you bring the

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Speaker 5: ball down. So there's times where you call him and

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Speaker 5: you may call ten shots in a game. If they

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Speaker 5: don't give it to you the look that you're anticipating,

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Speaker 5: or they don't play it a certain way, you never

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Speaker 5: you're never bored taking a nice completion on a checkdown.

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Speaker 10: I've been increasingly creative in scoring zone running plays this year.

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Speaker 8: Is it out of.

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Speaker 10: Necessity you've gone that way or do you just look

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Speaker 10: at the Chiefs and say, they.

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Speaker 4: Do it, they're good, so let's try it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, were hard to copy with those what coach Reid

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Speaker 5: does with his guys. No, for us, it's always Tony

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Speaker 5: just trying to find different ways to score. I mean,

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Speaker 5: as you know, you get down there, it's hard. The

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Speaker 5: field dimensions change, it's hard to throw in, it becomes

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Speaker 5: hard to run it in because you can't block everybody.

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Speaker 5: So I think our coaches do an outstanding job of

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Speaker 5: trying to find little wrinkles or nuanced two things, and

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Speaker 5: to give your guys a chance. And we're very fortunate

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Speaker 5: in the players that we have down there.

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Speaker 4: You guys are read the league talk about on this

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Speaker 4: team go out and we talk about guys stepping in

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Speaker 4: and talking with them and helping them get ready in

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Speaker 4: the locker room eve when they're hurt.

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Speaker 1: For Dustin Hopkins specifically.

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Speaker 6: Like what can he do and what conversations did he

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Speaker 6: have with Riley while he's out.

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Speaker 3: Preparing him to kick in Cleveland and the dog.

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Speaker 8: Pound on Thursday night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good point, Cam because I think the

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Speaker 5: big thing is kicking in Cleveland's a little bit different

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Speaker 5: than everywhere else, so naturally he can share all the

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Speaker 5: secrets of our stadium and the wind and those type

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Speaker 5: of things. So I think that's extremely helpful to have

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Speaker 5: dust In here with Riley in that regard. I think

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Speaker 5: we had a couple of guys in so Cluch.

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Speaker 12: For you guys, you would think that if you did

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Speaker 12: make the playoffs, he would be a real weapon for

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Speaker 12: you in that type of stety. Are you confident that

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Speaker 12: we say week the week that if you did make

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Speaker 12: the playoffs he.

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Speaker 8: Would be ready?

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Speaker 5: So's I can't say.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 11: Tony asked you about did a creative if you ever

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Speaker 11: run as much?

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Speaker 8: I don't tell me going to half for what as

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Speaker 8: much wildcat did you have? And what about now has.

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Speaker 4: Made you go to that?

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Speaker 5: I don't know if we like, I don't know the

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Speaker 5: numbers offhand. I know with Tony Sperano at the Vikings

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Speaker 5: we ran a bunch of it. God rest his soul.

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Speaker 5: He did a great job. Tony did that in Miami

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Speaker 5: if you remember so, we did it at the Vikings

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Speaker 5: quite a bit, maybe twenty seventeen eighteen. Yeah, it's always

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Speaker 5: just what Sometimes you see things on film where you

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Speaker 5: feel like there might be an opportunity if we do this,

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Speaker 5: what would their reaction be? But it truly is a

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Speaker 5: week to week thing. It's not it's not you have

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Speaker 5: to do a wildcatter, you have to do something special.

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Speaker 5: It's really just based on what you think you're gonna

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Speaker 5: get from the defense. Do you feel just as.

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Speaker 15: Good about using PJ and some of those for some

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Speaker 15: of that spot duty that you did for DTR and

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Speaker 15: you know why? Are you pretty confident with him as

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Speaker 15: your bankgrount?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well we'll see in terms of the like you mentioned,

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Speaker 5: Mary Kay, but yeah, very confident in PJ. He's started

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Speaker 5: games for US, one games for US come in and

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Speaker 5: one games for US. He knows our system, so very confident.

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Speaker 10: Guys they've looked at the Jets game last year?

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Speaker 4: Is that on their own or did you show too?

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Speaker 5: I think you always look at if you played somebody

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Speaker 5: the week before, you watch that because you want to

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Speaker 5: see how they operated in third down or short yardage goal.

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Speaker 5: And you always go back and watch it.

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Speaker 8: Kevin, because you guys have the early buy.

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Speaker 16: And I know these Thursday night games are hard, but

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Speaker 16: is there some benefit especially for you guys as a

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Speaker 16: coaching staff, that you're going to have ten days between

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Speaker 16: games that can we get this mini by coming up?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think that's always the benefit of the Thursday night

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Speaker 5: game for sure. Is it's so hard to make it.

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Speaker 5: And I say it's hard. I just have to stand

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Speaker 5: on the sideline. These players have to get their bodies

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Speaker 5: ready to go. So it's hard. From that perspective. Once

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Speaker 5: you get to Thursday, you do get a little bit

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Speaker 5: of a breather on the other end. So every team

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Speaker 5: kind of treats that as a mini buy, if you will,

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Speaker 5: and pretty unique to have our buy so early in

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Speaker 5: this one so late, but you're gonna use it to

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Speaker 5: your advantage and try to, you know, make sure the

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Speaker 5: guys are getting healthy.

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Speaker 16: Well, you guys kind of do I know you always

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Speaker 16: do a self scout at the bie, will you guys

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Speaker 16: kind of do a condensed version of that, especially.

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Speaker 5: With Yeah, a little bit of that as you evolve

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Speaker 5: and you do it really throughout the season. You're already

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Speaker 5: doing that, but you will use that opportunity just to

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Speaker 5: see where you are in the last month or so today.

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Speaker 4: and the eyes of the nation watching. You are the

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Speaker 4: Browns team, which has overcome so much this season, sits

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Speaker 4: at ten and five. You got Joe Flacco facing the

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Speaker 4: Jets team that he was with a year ago, leading

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Speaker 4: an insane come from behind victory against the Browns. Now

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Speaker 4: he's the Browns quarterback. He is three to one coming

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Speaker 4: off of a historic game in Houston. Flaco throws for

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Speaker 4: three hundred and sixty eight yards three touchdowns, becoming only

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Speaker 4: the second Brown in franchise history to throw for three

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Speaker 4: hundred yards in three straight games. In fact, he now

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Speaker 4: holds the Browns franchise records for most passing yards and

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Speaker 4: And then what can you say about Amari Cooper? The

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Speaker 4: nation's going to get to watch him. Eleven catches, two

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Speaker 4: hundred and sixty five yards two touchdowns in the win

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Speaker 4: over the Texans. That is the highest total in a

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Speaker 4: single game in Cleveland Browns franchise history. It's a career

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Speaker 4: high for Amari Cooper and it's more receiving yards than

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Speaker 4: anybody has had in the NFL this season. So the

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Speaker 4: Browns are cooking right now. Winners of the last couple games.

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Speaker 4: Take care of business against the Jacksonville Jaguars. You take

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Speaker 4: care of business against the Chicago Bears in dramatic fashion,

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Speaker 4: five with an opportunity to punch your ticket to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: And think about this. When the Browns take the field

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Speaker 4: Thursday night against the Jets, they will do so without

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Speaker 4: left tackle. They're starting right tackle, their second starting right

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Speaker 4: And yet new guys step up every single week. The

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Speaker 4: Joe Flacco off of his couch into the history books,

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Speaker 4: with the Browns less than a month ago, the day

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Speaker 4: after the birth of his son, and he comes in,

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Speaker 4: Zadarias Smith playing at an unbelievable level. And then you

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Speaker 4: of the year, that's been the stabilizing force, really has

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Speaker 4: good thirteen sacks, and while the sacks haven't come recently,

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Speaker 4: you have great corners, elite corners mj Emerson, Greg Newsome,

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Speaker 4: Denzel Award. Quite frankly, all three could be Pro Bowlers

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Speaker 4: this season, which would be historic. But this is a

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Speaker 4: on Thursday night. They're gonna be wearing those beautiful white helmets.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna get the crowd in there early. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: get you everybody fired up to punch their ticket to

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Speaker 4: the playoffs. And I know that we were all talking

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Speaker 4: a hit last night when the Ravens went into San

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Speaker 4: quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, that we'd be ten and

865
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Speaker 4: five with a chance to go to the playoffs on

866
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 4: Thursday night football against the Jets. You said, I love you,

867
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 4: but you're crazy. This is the real story. It's like

868
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 4: a movie. That's why we love rooting for this team.

869
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 4: That's why they are so fun. The resilience, the belief,

870
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 4: they never quit and it doesn't matter who comes in.

871
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 4: There's a standard here then no matter who steps into

872
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 4: a major role, they step in and they step up.

873
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 4: And we have seen that with this Browns team all

874
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 4: season long. But right now, Flacco Fever is running wild

875
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 4: in this town. I'll tell you what. So, I had

876
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 4: my buddy Jimmy Bang Bangs and f you made a

877
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 4: card for Joe Flacco, thanking him for being the best

878
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 4: quarterback ever, giving the kids the best Christmas with the

879
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 4: big win on Christmas Eve. And I showed it to

880
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 4: Joe and he goes, this sounds freaking crazy, man, I

881
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 4: love it. I love it. Think about this guy. Rep

882
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 4: was a Baltimore, the face of the Ravens. He tortured

883
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 4: the Browns. They tortured him with the Jets last year,

884
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 4: and now he is the toast of the town Flacco fever.

885
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 4: People are wacko for Flacco. It's unbelievable. And the fact

886
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 4: that he is playing at such a high level, the

887
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 4: throws he made in this game, the deep balls to

888
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 4: Amari throwing out of sacks. Memory's not supposed to be mobile,

889
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 4: bouncing off of sacks, rolling around making plays. It's just

890
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 4: been pure joy. And then you got David Ajoku, forged

891
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 4: in the fires literally for the Cleveland Browns earlier this season.

892
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 4: Didn't miss a snap, did not miss a snap. Gibe

893
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 4: as you smile over there. And yet He's back three

894
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 4: straight games with a receiving touchdown, one of the most

895
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 4: dominant complete tight ends in the National Football League. So

896
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 4: much to like about this scene. It so much embodies

897
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 4: kind of that blue collar hard work, do whatever you

898
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 4: can to find a way to win attitude that we

899
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 4: love here about the northeast Ohio region in the great

900
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 4: city of Cleveland. So that's what's at stake on Thursday night,

901
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 4: a chance to lock in the twenty twenty three playoffs.

902
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 4: That's all you can do is get in the dance, right.

903
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 4: I talk with Jron Harmon earlier today, the three time

904
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 4: Super Bowl champion. He said, you have to get in

905
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 4: the dance, and then it's a second season, and the

906
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 4: Browns are trying to earn their right for that second

907
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 4: season with a win at home over the Jets, where

908
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 4: the Browns are seven and one this year, with one

909
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 4: of the best home teams in the National Football League,

910
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 4: our defense at home historically good. We need one more

911
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 4: of those performances and the Browns will punch their ticket.

912
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 4: All right. Coming up our number two, we've got the

913
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Speaker 4: Hof Joe Thomas joining us for the Joe Thomas Half Hour.

914
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 4: That's gonna be a lot of fun to get to.

915
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 4: We're gonna take a look at that AFC North and

916
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 4: AFC playoff picture as well, and we can, in fact,

917
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 4: we can do that right now. As you look around

918
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 4: the AFC North, I think ultimately it was good what

919
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 4: the Steelers did. That was a hard game. He didn't

920
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 4: know really who to root for in that one, but

921
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Speaker 4: the Steelers were able to knock off the Cincinnati Bengals.

922
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 4: And so here are the standings right now. In the

923
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 4: AFC North. You've got the Ravens. They are twelve and three.

924
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 4: They have clinched a playoff berth right now, they look

925
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 4: to be the most likely candidate to be the number

926
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Speaker 4: one seed. Now, if they lose both of their games,

927
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Speaker 4: the Browns win both of theirs, there's an opportunity for

928
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Speaker 4: the Browns to be that one seed and win this division.

929
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Speaker 4: Browns ten and five, Steelers eight and seven, Bengals eight

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Speaker 4: and seven as well. And if you look at the

931
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Speaker 4: wildcard picture in the AFC right now, the one seed,

932
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Speaker 4: the Ravens, two seed Dolphins, three seed Chiefs, four seed

933
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Speaker 4: the Jags holding on in a three way tie there

934
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Speaker 4: with the Colts and the Texans. In the AFC South,

935
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Speaker 4: the Browns. Ten and five the Bills all of a sudden,

936
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Speaker 4: now the sixth team in and that's a team I

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Speaker 4: don't think a lot of people want to play in

938
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Speaker 4: the AFC. And number seven currently the Indianapolis Colts. And

939
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Speaker 4: so that's where things sit right now. In Week seventeen

940
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 4: coming up, you got obviously the Browns and the Jets.

941
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 4: Thursday Night Football, Dolphins at Ravens, that's a big one

942
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 4: for playoff implications, Titans at Texas, Raiders at Colts, Panthers

943
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 4: at Jaguars. So you think about that AFC South. Colts

944
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 4: are favored over the Raiders, Texans are favored over the Titans.

945
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 4: Jags big favorites over the Panthers. So say no, anybody

946
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 4: want to win a game in the AFC South. That's

947
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 4: still a lot of drama. Not last week, they certainly

948
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Speaker 4: did not begals. If you're wondering, are at the Chiefs,

949
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 4: Steelers are at the Seahawks, and that is the scene.

950
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 4: Those are the stakes. Win and you are in for

951
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty three Cleveland Browns. A right, we'll be

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Speaker 4: the call for Thursday night, the Browns and the Steelers.

974
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Speaker 4: It is going to be Brown's and the Jets. I'm sorry,

975
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Speaker 4: Brown's already beaten the Steelers. That's when Jim made his

976
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 4: triumphant return. Small mentioned the guitar emotional, Gibbe, emotional, me emotional,

977
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 4: everybody not a dry eye in the house. Gibbe. We

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Speaker 4: got to kick off and I'm like, I need, I

979
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 4: need a drink. Well, you just had to wait till

980
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Speaker 4: after the game, and then you got a little peb

981
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Speaker 4: and Jay boy, those were flowing last night.

982
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,919
Speaker 7: Oh baby, the shock Queen got ahold of that kit

983
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 7: and was like, well, here we go.

984
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 4: I can't wait to run this by Bow and I

985
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 4: don't know what if he's gonna think it's blasphemous, but

986
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 4: we took our bourbon apple pie on a on an

987
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Speaker 4: ice block, a little bit of screwball in there, so

988
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 4: give it a little peanut butter apple peanut butter goes

989
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 4: together nicely. Oh baby, it was a hit, let me

990
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Speaker 4: tell you, it was an absolute hit. So that was

991
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. Ended Chris the Christmas season the

992
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 4: way I started it, Little Christmas vacation on that's my

993
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Speaker 4: It's what a film it was.

994
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 7: It's just so normally I will watch Chris. I didn't

995
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 7: watch any TV. Like by the time I got home

996
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:09,439
Speaker 7: Sunday night.

997
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys didn't have football on yesterday.

998
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 7: No football, but like you know, Christmas movies. Let me

999
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 7: put it that way. I don't like, I didn't watch

1000
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,399
Speaker 7: anything Christmas Eve I got home. Patriots Broncos was going

1001
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 7: to overtime.

1002
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm like, oh, I got to

1003
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 4: watch in this now. I don't like like next year,

1004
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 4: I think I'll be for Christmas itself. I'll enjoy very

1005
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 4: much the fact that it's a Tuesday Wednesday, and so

1006
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 4: they're probably there won't be any football. Well let's hope.

1007
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 4: Oh they can play game. They can't play a game

1008
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 4: on Tuesday or Wednesday. They can They played on Tuesdays before.

1009
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 4: You know that, and I know that during the COVID era,

1010
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 4: well that was out of okay, but necessity, I would

1011
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 4: like it very much if if there was no game,

1012
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 4: because you're right, like I like to have like a

1013
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 4: Christmas story on in the background, and like I didn't

1014
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 4: there was none of that, but there was there was

1015
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 4: fun football. Then football is the greatest, so certainly enjoy that.

1016
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, the football yesterday, I mean watching the Chiefs literally

1017
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 7: have a meltdown was wild.

1018
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 4: Kelsey slam and his helmet like shove and shoving Kelsey like,

1019
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 4: come on, get it together. Yeah. I don't know, maybe

1020
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 4: it's I like it. You never know what's happening there.

1021
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 4: Eagles beat the Giants, but they were unimpressive in doing so,

1022
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 4: and then the Ravens were quite impressive, dominating the forty

1023
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 4: nine ers. That's the way that that one went around

1024
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 4: on our Ah. Yes, pure joy. Now as we begin

1025
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 4: the Joe Thomas half Hour, I welcome in the hof himself.

1026
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Speaker 4: First of all, hop give me the breakdown. How is Christmas?

1027
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 4: How was the feast? How was the veno? How'd you do?

1028
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 8: It?

1029
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 9: Was incredible? We had the classic, at least in my

1030
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 9: family Christmas dinner. We went with the ham, you know,

1031
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 9: the bigd Ham. Mama was in charge of that one.

1032
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 9: We did the cheesy hash browns. I don't know if

1033
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 9: that's just a Wisconsin thing or if that's international, but

1034
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 9: the wife does the hash browns. I think it's like

1035
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 9: sour cream butter, maybe some garlic and then some cheese.

1036
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 9: Puts it all in a baking tin, puts it in

1037
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Speaker 9: the oven to get that like crispy, crunchy goodness cheese

1038
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 9: on the outside on the edges, and then you get

1039
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 9: the creamy hashed on on the inside, which was glorious.

1040
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 9: We had a squash from my farm garden that we

1041
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 9: baked up and then the butter honey. It's just fantastic.

1042
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 9: Of course you always got to have mashed potatoes as well.

1043
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 9: We did some Brussels sprouts in the oven with some

1044
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 9: bacon bits with that was phenomenal. So just a really nice,

1045
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 9: down the middle, exceptional Christmas in the top it off.

1046
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Speaker 9: The Great z provided the veno for the event, which

1047
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 9: was fantastic. As always, nice pints might as well be

1048
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 9: one hundred. I'm just gonna go on, I was gonna

1049
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 9: taste it like it was one hundred.

1050
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Speaker 4: I love it. A little Chateau Pape Clement, famous emilion

1051
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 4: on house in Bordeaux. Love it. I love to hear

1052
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: that you saw I sent you the video. You saw

1053
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 4: the video. The prime rib was what it always is, perfect,

1054
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 4: although I think I added two new little wrinkles to

1055
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 4: it this year. The first was tell me I did

1056
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 4: the dry brine with the Penzi's prime rib and I'd

1057
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 4: said this on the air to do this, but forty

1058
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 4: eight hours so it was in the fridge. I put

1059
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 4: it in the fridge. I got it on Saturday morning

1060
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 4: and put it in before I went to get on

1061
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 4: the plane for Houston, and then obviously cooked it on Monday.

1062
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 4: So did about forty eight hours uncovered with that good

1063
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 4: rub all over it, and that really created an unbelievable

1064
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 4: crust on the exterior, and the flavors really penetrated the meat.

1065
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 8: And then when I.

1066
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Speaker 4: Did the wet rub with the you know, the olive oil,

1067
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 4: the pressed gar, like the salt pepper, the rosemary. The

1068
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 4: time the butcher had tied my bones, but not super tight,

1069
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 4: so I was actually able to kind of like pull

1070
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Speaker 4: it apart a little bit, and I had one of

1071
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Speaker 4: my you know, the butcher gloves on those black gloves

1072
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 4: and kind of was just like sopping up the stuff.

1073
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Speaker 4: And then I was able to really rub the underbelly

1074
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 4: of the meat, in between the bones and the and

1075
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 4: the bottom side of the rib ros so that it

1076
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 4: actually the middle was so flavorful too. It was it

1077
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 4: was incredible, And it turned out to be just people

1078
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 4: thought it was the best ever. I mean, I feel

1079
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 4: like you're always a prisoner of the moment in those situations,

1080
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 4: but I think it may have been. It may have

1081
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 4: been the best ever.

1082
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 9: Well, the photos made it look like it was probably

1083
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 9: the best ever. Certainly it's never been exceeded, but there

1084
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 9: may be some imposters out there that were just as

1085
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 9: good throughout history, of course. But yeah, I was definitely

1086
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 9: really jealous. And I'm curious that you said you did

1087
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 9: the forty eight hour uncovered dry brine. Is there a

1088
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 9: limit to how long you can leave it uncovered to

1089
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 9: continue to improve that crust where you start?

1090
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 4: I think they I think I don't think you want

1091
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 4: to go much beyond forty eight is what I was reading.

1092
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 4: That's kind of the sweet spot. But you don't want

1093
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 4: to be going, Yeah, I don't fifty one might be

1094
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 4: pushing it off. I don't know who's to.

1095
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 9: Say, yeah, yeah.

1096
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 4: Forty eight is all you need though? For sure?

1097
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,439
Speaker 9: Yeah, well certainly it was a ten out of ten,

1098
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 9: so I don't know how you get any better than that.

1099
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 9: But the guy who did my Hall of Fame bus

1100
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 9: sculpting was a big smoked meat guy out in You

1101
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 9: saw his name is Ben Hammond. He's fantastic, one of

1102
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 9: the best sculptors in North America. Certainly did a great job,

1103
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,919
Speaker 9: and he told me did a great job. I was very,

1104
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 9: very pleased with the results. But he does a brisket

1105
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 9: where he does a one week dry brine like that

1106
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 9: to really get that cross in his fridge. And he's like,

1107
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 9: when it starts smelling off, smell like, it smells like

1108
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 9: it's gone too far. He's like, that's when you know

1109
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 9: it's just perfect. And he says that that's his brisket seeker.

1110
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: I haven't.

1111
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 9: I haven't had the courage yet to try it. But

1112
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 9: I was what you're telling about how you do your privately.

1113
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 4: When it starts smelling like it's going rotten, that's because

1114
00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 4: it is. That doesn't just that you never know. Wow,

1115
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 4: that's that's in. That's intense. That's intense. I didn't. I

1116
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 4: didn't see that what coming. All right, let's just talk

1117
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 4: about for a second now. Half we've talked about pure

1118
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 4: joy of food. We get it. We're a pure joy.

1119
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 4: We're going to get to see each other on Thursday.

1120
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 4: I'm pumped about that for the Browns and the Jets,

1121
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 4: and it's the ten and five Browns because of what

1122
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 4: went down in Houston thirty six to twenty two. Two

1123
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 4: questions for you. First, have you ever been part of

1124
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 4: a game where you were blowing a team out so

1125
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 4: bad that all the starters come out, helmets off, They're

1126
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 4: staying around having the time in their lives, and then all

1127
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 4: of a sudden they have to go back into the game.

1128
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 4: Has that ever happened to you?

1129
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 9: Uh, it has never happened to me, because.

1130
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 4: Well, I know you had ten thousand and three to

1131
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 4: sixty three.

1132
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 9: I like you, yeah, yeah, and you would have refused

1133
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 9: time in my career, yeah, I refused it. However, there

1134
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 9: have been times in the preseason where you come out

1135
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 9: of the game and all of a sudden, you know,

1136
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 9: injury for whatever happened where they're going, oh, you got

1137
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 9: to go back in the game. And that that is

1138
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 9: a nerve wracking moment because, as you know, like when

1139
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 9: you get in your mind ready to go play an

1140
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 9: NFL game, it's serious, Like to the point where my

1141
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 9: friends and family they knew they didn't want to talk

1142
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 9: to me, like I didn't want to talk to them.

1143
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 9: I wasn't calling the wife the day of the game.

1144
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 9: I wasn't talking to friends like I was very focused,

1145
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 9: and I think that's how a lot of people approach

1146
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 9: the game. And then, you know, you go through the

1147
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 9: first part of the game and it's obviously physically and

1148
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 9: mentally exhausting, and once you kind of check out that

1149
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 9: focused in the zone moment, it's really hard to just

1150
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 9: put that switch back on. And so that's like a

1151
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 9: nightmare scenario where all of a sudden, you're going, holy crap,

1152
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 9: I got to go back in and not only do

1153
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 9: I have to play, but like the game's on the line,

1154
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 9: I got to be at my best at a moment's notice.

1155
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 9: And that's how I felt bad for those quarterbacks that were,

1156
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 9: you know, sitting on the sideline. They hadn't played all year,

1157
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 9: and all of a sudden, you know, week twelve, fourth quarter,

1158
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 9: you're starting to get hanged up, and they got to

1159
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 9: go in there cold and lead the team down there

1160
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 9: for a touchdown drive. So definitely some some nervous moments

1161
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,280
Speaker 9: on the sideline, but all was well because the result

1162
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 9: turned out in the Browns favor.

1163
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 4: It was thirty six to seven with just over six

1164
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 4: minutes to go in this one hop and he thought

1165
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 4: you were just cruising, then all of a sudden touchdown

1166
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 4: on sidekick touchdown, You're like, whoa hold on a second,

1167
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 4: what's going on here? Now? If there was a silver lining,

1168
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 4: it's that Amari Cooper got to come back in the game,

1169
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 4: catch one more pass and set the Browns all time

1170
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 4: single game record, excuse me, with two hundred and sixty

1171
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 4: five receiving yards. What can you say about what Amari

1172
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 4: Cooper did in this one? And what Joe Flacco has

1173
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 4: done now is seemingly every single.

1174
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 9: Week, all he can say is pure joy. Right if

1175
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:36,280
Speaker 9: you heard so improbable and you could tell the improbability

1176
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 9: of the outcome that we've seen since Joe Flacco has

1177
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 9: come and become the brown Savior, it was written all

1178
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 9: over Flacco's face when he is on the sideline and

1179
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 9: he's just just happy, just surprised. I mean, he was

1180
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 9: ready for this moment. He stayed ready. You know, he

1181
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 9: didn't have to get ready when the Browns called him

1182
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 9: because he always felt like he had plenty left in

1183
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 9: the tank. But I think still what happened there on Sunday,

1184
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 9: even if surprised him a little bit, because it was

1185
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 9: like every time he dialed up number two, Amari came

1186
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 9: up with some incredible catch, contested catchdown the sideline, beautiful

1187
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 9: route running just so smooth, so fun, and the connection

1188
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 9: that those guys have. It's just so great to watch,

1189
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 9: right because we all knew how great Amari super was

1190
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 9: when he came here, and he's had some great moments. Obviously,

1191
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 9: first receiver in Brown's history to go back to back

1192
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 9: thousand yard receiving season, was able to go over that mark,

1193
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 9: but then to break Josh Gordon's Brown's single game receiving

1194
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 9: yards record rip Josh Gordon memory in Cleveland. Unfortunately, that

1195
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 9: was like the last thing we think about with Josh.

1196
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 4: Gordons a life.

1197
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 9: He is so but his record is. But it was

1198
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 9: just it was just a really fun moment, and you

1199
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 9: could just see how much joy those guys are having

1200
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 9: on the sideline and how much Flacca was just probably

1201
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 9: reflecting in those moments of like where he was a

1202
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 9: month ago and where he is right now, as you know,

1203
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 9: the quarterback of the team of Destiny, it.

1204
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 4: Is it feels like a team of Destiny. He is

1205
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 4: the most popular man in town by a wide margin

1206
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 4: right now, and it's Flacco Fever is legitimately running wild.

1207
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 4: We talked in that game against Chicago, how good that

1208
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 4: throw was in the hole to in between the three

1209
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,959
Speaker 4: defenders to Amari for the touchdown. What about the throw

1210
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 4: on fourth down? And even he had to laugh about

1211
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 4: it after the game. He's getting sacked from behind, falling

1212
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 4: forward with his body going to the ground. He's getting

1213
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 4: hit almost he's about to get hit from the front

1214
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 4: as well. And he doesn't just throw like a guy

1215
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 4: right in front of him. He throws an out to

1216
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 4: the sideline. Actually it's a comebacker. He throws a Mario

1217
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 4: open and a window as big as a ball that

1218
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 4: if he doesn't get the ball there, it's gonna be

1219
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 4: a pick six. That throw, to me was one of

1220
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 4: the most incredible, insane things I've ever seen in my life.

1221
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 4: What did you think of that one?

1222
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 9: Well, the thing that screamed in my head was confident.

1223
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 9: And Joe Flacco has never lost confidence in himself, and

1224
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 9: he's never lost confidence in his big arm. And that's

1225
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 9: why I always love big quarterbacks, especially as they get older,

1226
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 9: because it seems like that arm strengthen that ability to

1227
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 9: escape or at least hold on as they're being sacked,

1228
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 9: get one more pass in is unmatched and small quarterbacks

1229
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 9: just don't have that. And I think for Flacco, he's

1230
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 9: a big guy. You know, they talked about it a

1231
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 9: bunch on the broadcast. I know you're not listening to

1232
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 9: the broadcast, but Hin Eagle Charles Davis did a great

1233
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 9: job again and just talking about how big Placo is

1234
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 9: and how difficult he is to bring to the ground.

1235
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 9: And I think a guy that maybe doesn't have the

1236
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 9: confidence that Flaco has would never even attempt that throw

1237
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 9: because it's a risky throw when you're throwing anything to

1238
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 9: the sideline. Come back. It's one of the more difficult

1239
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 9: routes that quarterbacks throw. It's one of the things that

1240
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 9: a lot of times when you're evaluating quarterbacks, can they

1241
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 9: play in the NFL? He can you throw that comeback

1242
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 9: route on time? Because the windows are so small in

1243
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 9: the NFL. And then talk about off balance with the

1244
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 9: guy draped all over you throwing to the sideline in

1245
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 9: a tight window and being able to one let it

1246
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 9: rip and feel good about it, to hit the ball

1247
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 9: exactly where in your mind when you close your eyes

1248
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 9: it was supposed to go, putting it there like those

1249
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 9: are the things that only happen when you're the team

1250
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 9: of death. I mean, that's all I can say. January

1251
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 9: Soil Flacco to Amari Cooper, it just.

1252
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 4: Elite, elite guy's elite. Oh man, the throat, the throat

1253
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 4: to chief on the little like stick and go the

1254
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 4: stick and nod in the middle of the field. When

1255
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 4: they had the middle of the field open the two

1256
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 4: deep safeties to put it in the window. That he

1257
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 4: put that one in and that one he threw completely

1258
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 4: flat footed about thirty yards on a rope. I mean,

1259
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 4: it's just it's it's awesome to see. This has been

1260
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 4: so funny. Say team of Destiny, team of Joy, all

1261
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 4: of those things are so apropos. This Brown team is special.

1262
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 4: It's got a very special feel to it, and for

1263
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 4: a very good reason, because they have done things that

1264
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 4: have been incredible week in week out. Now, one question

1265
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 4: coming out of this one. We'll talk about special teams

1266
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 4: in a second. But it feels like we can't run

1267
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 4: the ball and we're throwing because we need to, and

1268
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 4: quite frankly, we're very good at it right now with

1269
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco, But we cannot run the football. And it's

1270
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 4: been a couple of weeks now where we're around two

1271
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:05,959
Speaker 4: yards of carry. We have the lowest yards for carry

1272
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 4: the league over the last three games by a wide, wide,

1273
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 4: wide margin.

1274
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 9: Well, that was one of the things we said when

1275
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 9: Flaco first came in there, said, well, you know, we're

1276
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 9: still running the ball pretty well, even though we lost

1277
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 9: Nick Chubb. We're finding a way. But I think the

1278
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 9: decimation of our roster, especially at the tackle position, is

1279
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 9: start to eat away at the run game a little bit.

1280
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 9: You know, we've got it when we need it in

1281
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 9: some of those short yards situations, and I think that's

1282
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 9: a credit to the creative run schemes that the Fantasy's

1283
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 9: put in together. But also Kareem Hunts are really good

1284
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 9: short yards back and that helps. And then having the

1285
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 9: ability to bring in dtr in some of those situations

1286
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 9: and give defenses looks that they haven't seen, which gives

1287
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 9: you the advantage, right because you have a split second

1288
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 9: where they're not exactly sure what they're looking at.

1289
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 4: Right.

1290
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Speaker 9: When I think back to my first few years in

1291
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 9: the NFL, everyone is running a lot of twenty one personnel, right,

1292
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 9: it's two backs in the tight end, and you had

1293
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 9: all kind of the same run concepts. Yet how already encounter.

1294
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 9: You had the lead to the weak side where your

1295
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 9: fullback leads on that front side linebacker and it's an

1296
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 9: inside zone. Like all the run concepts were pretty similar.

1297
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 9: And then there was a couple of teams like the

1298
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 9: Shanahans that were running the outside zone. But for the

1299
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 9: most part, if I'm a linebacker, I used to talk

1300
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 9: to Dakael Jackson about this. He was like, as soon

1301
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 9: as you guys line up in that formation and you

1302
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 9: would start your motion, He's like, I knew exactly what

1303
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 9: was coming and I had I knew the gap that

1304
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 9: I had to get to, and so I was beating

1305
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 9: the guys to the spot. Well, they don't have that

1306
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 9: advantage when they're looking at a formation and a personnel

1307
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 9: group and they haven't seen and so they're going to

1308
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 9: be a little slower. And I think Tavanski has used

1309
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 9: that to our advantage. And Kareem Hunt is really tough

1310
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 9: to tackle in a phone mooth when it only needs

1311
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 9: the art or too. But they need to be able

1312
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 9: to find a way to get some normal down and

1313
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 9: distance four or five six yard clips. Because as much

1314
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 9: as we expect and hope that January Joe continues this

1315
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 9: elite trajectory throw in the football though. Maari Cooper like,

1316
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 9: we're going to play the Jets on Thursday night, and

1317
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 9: Robert Salid, a very good defensive coord are like, Yeah,

1318
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 9: they're going to be ready and they're going to try

1319
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 9: to take away a Mari. And I think that's where

1320
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 9: and Djoku has played a huge role for us in

1321
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 9: the middle of the field because if you do double

1322
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 9: or you try to roll safeties to a Mari, it

1323
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 9: does open up things in the middle of the field

1324
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 9: to Djoku. But I mean there's ways to take away

1325
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 9: two guys as well, and they're going to just sit

1326
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 9: back and coverage and try to force you around the

1327
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 9: football a little bit. And so finding ways to be productive,

1328
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 9: especially when you do have numbers or a light box

1329
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 9: where you do have a hat for a hat, I

1330
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 9: think it's going to be really important if we do

1331
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 9: want to make any type of a playoff run.

1332
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're exactly right about that. Talking with

1333
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 4: the Hof Joe Thomas, it's the Joe Thomas half hour

1334
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 4: here on Cleveland Browns Daily. All right, Hof, game ball

1335
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 4: time one on offense. You've given your game ball to.

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01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 9: Well, if I don't give it to Amari Cooper. I

1337
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 9: feel like I should be fired on the spot, but

1338
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 9: I'll leave. I'll take a Mari because you set the

1339
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 9: franchise record for receiving yards in a game, and I'll

1340
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 9: leave the other low hanging through to you. Big.

1341
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice to be very easy, Amari Cooper pops

1342
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 4: game ball mine January. Joe Flacco three hundred and sixty

1343
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 4: eight yards, three touchdowns in this one. He was spectacular

1344
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 4: all right on defense game ball, defensive game ball.

1345
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 9: For me, I'm gonna go with Greg Newsom. It was

1346
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 9: fun watching him, you know, the first time he did

1347
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 9: his little celebration, which I'm not exactly sure what the

1348
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 9: name of it is yet, but you know, the few

1349
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 9: times that he's been challenged, he's been fantastic, Like you've

1350
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 9: been that lockdown corner that we've been talking about for

1351
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 9: a long time. And a big impetus why the team

1352
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 9: has been not only competitive but right there at the

1353
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 9: top of the AFC is because of this great defense,

1354
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 9: which starts with the coverage in the back end and

1355
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 9: then the pass rush that we can provide up front.

1356
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 9: And when you've got two great corners in Denzel Award

1357
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 9: and Greg Newsom, and then you've got a host of

1358
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 9: other fast, speedy guys that can cover underneath. It makes

1359
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 9: it really difficult. There's just a lot of holes to

1360
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 9: throw to. And I think being able to lock up

1361
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 9: number one and number two receiver from the other teams

1362
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 9: when you're going to be playing some of these top

1363
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 9: teams in the AFC in the playoffs, I think is

1364
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 9: going to be huge. And I loved what I saw

1365
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 9: from Greg Newsom, not only with his coverage but his

1366
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 9: confidence to swag that seemed to be infectious within that

1367
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 9: Brown's defense.

1368
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and quite frankly, I think we have the best

1369
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 4: three corners. We can take anybody's one, two, and three.

1370
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Speaker 4: M J Emerson playing at an unbelievably elite level as well,

1371
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Speaker 4: So I like that Greg Newsome. My defensive game ball

1372
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Speaker 4: is going to go to Zadarius Smith, the veteran two

1373
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 4: sacks hit the arm of Kingdom on the interception for

1374
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 4: Deron Harmon. He was around the quarterback all game long,

1375
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 4: dominant against the run. That was kind of what I

1376
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 4: think when we brought in Zadarius, that's what we were expecting,

1377
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 4: and he had been around the quarterback a lot. He

1378
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 4: was second in pressure second and hits on the team,

1379
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 4: and his numbers weren't that far behind Miles, but this

1380
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 4: was the first game where he kind of blew up

1381
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 4: two sacks a turnover really in three sacks, and I

1382
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 4: thought that that was Zadarius and we get you know,

1383
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 4: Miles and Zadarius going off. The war's off to deal with.

1384
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, no doubt, and I think it's not like Zadarius

1385
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 9: is getting criticism, but I think there was some question mark.

1386
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 9: So we brought him here. We thought he'd have more sacks.

1387
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 9: And as you get older, you lose just a little

1388
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 9: bit of closing speed once you beat your blocker to

1389
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 9: be able to get to the quarterback. And so he's there.

1390
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 9: He's been affecting the game. He's been affecting the throw

1391
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 9: a bunch, so he's had a great impact for the defense,

1392
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 9: just hasn't been able to heal the deal. And it

1393
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 9: was so fun to be able to watch him with

1394
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 9: the joy in his face getting some of those sacks,

1395
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 9: getting that production that I think some of the fans

1396
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 9: that maybe just checked the stats at the end of

1397
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 9: the game and been looking for And to your point,

1398
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 9: I texted because me and Jack were watching the game

1399
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 9: like we always do, sitting on the couch and seeing

1400
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 9: Zadarius with the Santa celebration. Yeah, And I just loved

1401
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 9: it because at first when he did it looked like,

1402
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 9: you know, he's army crawling, and then Jack goes, he's

1403
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 9: doing a status celebration. I go, he did, yeah, because

1404
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 9: he was climbing down the gym and then he was

1405
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 9: eating the cookies and then he was rubbing his belly.

1406
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 9: I thought it was awesome, And I think it's so

1407
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 9: cool when these guys they're ready for that big moment

1408
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 9: and then they're able to celebrate, get their teammates fired up,

1409
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 9: get the guys fired up on the sideline. And Zadarius

1410
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 9: has been much beloved in that defensive meeting room since

1411
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 9: he got here. Yes, you know what the old heads

1412
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 9: but guys talk about, you know what a great personality

1413
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 9: has and when you make a play like that and

1414
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 9: then you're able to celebrate and get guys fired up,

1415
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 9: and get an old guy and his son fired up

1416
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 9: back in Madison, Wisconsin, that's pure joy. Deserving of a

1417
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 9: game ball for sure.

1418
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,959
Speaker 4: It is love it Zadarius there. Now, if there's one

1419
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 4: thing that we didn't do well in this game off

1420
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 4: special teams and we let a kick go back to

1421
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 4: the house up fourteen nothing when their offense couldn't do anything.

1422
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 4: But it was more than just allowing a kick because

1423
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,919
Speaker 4: on that play, Dustin Hopkins gets hurt. That forces Corey

1424
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 4: Bjorkz to kick off. He gets hurt on kickoffs. The

1425
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 4: Browns might now have a new kicker. Hunter. Our kicker

1426
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 4: has been the best kicker in the National Football League.

1427
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 4: Our punter has been elite in his ability to change

1428
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 4: field position, flip the field, and really hit some bombs.

1429
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 4: So this was and not only that, special teams also

1430
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 4: allowed an onside recovery in this game. So I know,

1431
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 4: Bubba Ventron, your a former teammate, he is going to

1432
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 4: make sure that that all gets cleaned up there. But

1433
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 4: you're happy these things happened and you still won. But

1434
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 4: as we get further along the season, either one of

1435
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 4: those things happening, an on side kick or a kick

1436
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,799
Speaker 4: return for a touchdown could be the difference between advancing

1437
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 4: your season, going closer to the Lombardi or going home.

1438
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was not a lot of fun. That was

1439
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,679
Speaker 9: not joy. That was the low of my day.

1440
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 12: There.

1441
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 9: We always go around the table at the end of

1442
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 9: the day with the kid and talk about our highs

1443
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 9: and lows, and for me watching our kicker sprint down

1444
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 9: the field and show speed, which I've been in that

1445
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 9: mindset a few times chasing down interceptions and you're thinking, oh,

1446
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 9: I can catch this guy, can impress the team and

1447
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,560
Speaker 9: everybody back home with how fast he is. So that

1448
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 9: when I was suching dust and running, I'm going, man,

1449
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 9: he's looking fast, but he doesn't run very much usually,

1450
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,720
Speaker 9: and so this cannot be good for the soft tissue.

1451
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 9: And sure enough, as soon as that was over, even

1452
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 9: though he didn't pull up lame like you know sometimes

1453
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 9: you see guys when they really pop a hamstring, I'm going, man,

1454
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 9: his hammies are just not ready to be running seventy

1455
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 9: yards at that speed because you're kind of getting ahead

1456
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 9: of your skis a little bit. And then as you

1457
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 9: slow down, everybody knows that's pull the hamstring. It usually

1458
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 9: happens when you tried to start slowing down because it's

1459
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 9: that eccentric lengthening of the hamstring that makes him go.

1460
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 9: And so I was really nervous even before I heard

1461
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 9: that he did hurt his hamstring. Hopefully it's not too bad.

1462
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 9: I saw we we did find a kicker of the

1463
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 9: practice squad either today or yesterday. And it's definitely a

1464
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 9: concern because he's been such a weapon. I think Miles

1465
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 9: Goodd said it a few weeks ago, he's like he's

1466
01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 9: the best player in the team. Now that was hyberberly obviously,

1467
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 9: because Miles Garrett is the best player of the team.

1468
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 9: But Dustin has been incredibly clutch, the best kicker. When

1469
01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 9: you're gonna make best kicker, you know, when you're to

1470
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 9: make a run through the playoffs, you're going to have

1471
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 9: to make a kick at the end of the half

1472
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 9: or at the end of the game to win the game,

1473
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 9: and it's going to come down to somebody's right foot.

1474
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 9: And we felt pretty good with Dustin, so you hope

1475
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 9: that he'll be able to come back, but it definitely

1476
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 9: makes you nervous, especially when you combine that with a

1477
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 9: punter who has been fantastic. The work has been unbelievable

1478
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 9: for the Browns. Now he's down, you're going, you know,

1479
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 9: to replace both specialists at this point in the season

1480
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 9: is not exactly ideal, and it's the operation.

1481
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 4: You're going to have a whole new kicking operation, A

1482
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 4: new holder if pork Is isn't able to go, and

1483
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 4: a new kicker. And so those are people who likely

1484
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 4: have not worked together before. It certainly not worked with

1485
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 4: Charlie Hewlett, and so this could be a big thing

1486
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 4: here on a short week against the Jets. Speaking of

1487
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 4: the short week, how do you kind of get your

1488
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 4: body and mind right when it's a short week to

1489
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 4: begin with, you know what's at stake right, you have

1490
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 4: a chance to clinch for the playoffs, and then oh,

1491
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:00,840
Speaker 4: Christmas was on the Monday of the short week. How

1492
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 4: do you deal with that as a player.

1493
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's really tough. And I'll watch a Chiefs game

1494
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 9: on Christmas Day and it just looked like Chiefs they

1495
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 9: were not really into it mentally, like they just made

1496
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 9: so many mistakes. Even Patrick Mahomes, guy that you rarely

1497
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 9: see make boneheaded decisions. I mean it is throwing out routes,

1498
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 9: come back to the sideline lake getting picked off, and

1499
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 9: when you throw the Christmas distraction in there, As much

1500
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 9: as you don't want it to be a distraction, it is.

1501
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 9: I mean, you've got family and friends in town, people

1502
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 9: that have kids, like you want it to be special

1503
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 9: for them, but you also don't want to try to.

1504
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 9: You don't want to lose focus on what is at

1505
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 9: stake for your team. But it's hard to kind of

1506
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 9: balance that. And I think when we used to play

1507
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 9: Thursday games, the preparation for that Thursday started the second

1508
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,200
Speaker 9: you landed Sunday night. For this team from Houston, I

1509
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 9: mean when I was playing, we would go into the

1510
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 9: cryo chamber right off the airport, right as soon as

1511
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 9: we landed, and start trying to get your body recovered.

1512
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:00,600
Speaker 9: Certainly coming in even as it's christ to say, you know,

1513
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 9: maybe coming later in the day, you're doing as much

1514
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,759
Speaker 9: recovery as you possibly can. You're getting massage, you're getting

1515
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 9: hot cold, ice tub, hot tub contrast to try to

1516
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,639
Speaker 9: get that body to recovery. You're doing some stone two

1517
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 9: cardio or whether it just be walking on a treadmill,

1518
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 9: or if your easther too swollen, maybe you're just riding

1519
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 9: the bike, just trying to get that blood flow as

1520
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 9: much as you can. It's a mental week, but we've

1521
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 9: got to try to find a way to get your

1522
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 9: body ready and get your body healed. But also knowing that, hey,

1523
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 9: you know, we'll sacrifice a little bit playing on a Thursday,

1524
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 9: you don't have the three time. Your body's not going

1525
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 9: to feel so good, but hopefully having that little mini

1526
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 9: by Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, get an opportunity to get

1527
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 9: ready for a big stretch. Now that it looks like

1528
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 9: the Browns probably won't be able to get a buye

1529
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 9: in the first round of the playoffs until they'll be playing,

1530
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 9: but I think it'll be an advantage if they're able

1531
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 9: to get through this Thursday and get the win against

1532
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 9: the Jets, having that little bit of a break before

1533
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 9: they make a playoff run.

1534
01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:03,640
Speaker 4: Half Thursday Night Football National TV, the Browns, who are

1535
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 4: seven and one at home, have a chance to clinch

1536
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 4: a playoff. Berth you are going to be in the house.

1537
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 4: You're going to be on the national radio call. I'm

1538
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 4: going to be in the house on our call with

1539
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,759
Speaker 4: the great Jim Donovan. I can't wait. But how special

1540
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 4: of a night do you think this could be in

1541
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 4: this city? Given that the last time we punched our

1542
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 4: ticket to the playoffs, there were twelve thousand people in attendance.

1543
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 4: It was the middle of COVID. This is I just

1544
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 4: think it could be nuts, and I want everybody in

1545
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 4: the stadium early, but pace yourselves during the day. Water

1546
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 4: will be your friend. You've got to get to the game, folks.

1547
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 4: Remember they got to be able to make it into

1548
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 4: the game.

1549
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 9: Zee, I think you're painting a beautiful picture. And it's

1550
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 9: the only advice I can have for fans is. My

1551
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 9: sister just had twins last summer, and we went to

1552
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 9: the Morgan wall In concert in the spring at Miller

1553
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 9: Park in Milwaukee, and it was her coming out party,

1554
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 9: right first time. She's going to go back on us

1555
01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 9: having a great time. Eight years younger than me, and

1556
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 9: you know, we start tailgating at noon for an eight

1557
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 9: o'clock concert, and I told, oh man, you know, being

1558
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 9: the big brother, I'm like, hey, you haven't been out

1559
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 9: in a long time, Like right, you got to have

1560
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 9: a little bit of a governor, especially early on. Beer water.

1561
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 9: Beer water, it's your friend. Don't don't be afraid, don't

1562
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 9: don't feel like the bus is leaving you if you're

1563
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 9: sitting on some waters and some Celtic waters early on,

1564
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 9: because the big show is happening at eight o'clock tonight.

1565
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 9: Of course, what happened she was lights down at seven

1566
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 9: point thirty before Morgan Walla even comes on stage. So

1567
01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 9: Brown fan take the advice and learn from the mistakes

1568
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 9: of my sister Jesse Thomas. You can start early, but

1569
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 9: don't go hard early because I don't want you going

1570
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 9: home before eight o'clock because we need you. It's going

1571
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 9: to be an incredibly electric atmosphere. I'm so excited to

1572
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:48,599
Speaker 9: be there. And the biggest challenge for me, the biggest

1573
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 9: stressor that I have going into the game, is doing

1574
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,480
Speaker 9: the national show. I'm supposed to be a little bit unbiased.

1575
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 9: I don't know how.

1576
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 4: Good luck coming out, good luck.

1577
01:14:56,400 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 9: Coming out of that radio boot and then of his rocket.

1578
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 4: My friend, are you with are you with Iron again?

1579
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 9: Yep?

1580
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's me and I am tell Iyan say sorry, brother,

1581
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 4: you're gonna put your Browns hat on tonight. This is

1582
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 4: this is gonna be a celebration in this town. It's

1583
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 4: gonna be a celebration, all right, get you go ahead.

1584
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 9: I would just say, thankfully it's not on TV, so

1585
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:19,799
Speaker 9: I can where I'll be fully decked out of Brown's

1586
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 9: here and nobody on the national broadcast have any idea.

1587
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 4: It's right, there'll be none the wise or all right,

1588
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 4: real quick, we'll get you out of here on this one.

1589
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 4: How do you kind of see really the league right now? AFC, NFC.

1590
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 4: The Ravens just go and smash the Niners. The Chiefs

1591
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 4: look to be in a little bit of chaos the

1592
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 4: way this playoff pitcher is setting up. Do you agree

1593
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 4: that it feels like the Niners probably still might be

1594
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 4: the best team. The Bills feel dangerous right now, But

1595
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 4: it does feel like if you get into the dance,

1596
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 4: you've got a chance to go all the way. Because

1597
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 4: there aren't there isn't a super team right now.

1598
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 9: You're exactly right. The playoffs to me, has always been

1599
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 9: about matchups, right. It seems like first and foremost, you know,

1600
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 9: how do you match up in the because you know,

1601
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 9: just because you have the best record or the best

1602
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 9: seating doesn't always mean that you're going to win the

1603
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 9: games in the playoffs. Because hey, we got a great

1604
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,839
Speaker 9: rushing attack, you know we'll playing on grass, bad conditions.

1605
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 9: All of a sudden, you know you can steal one

1606
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 9: from somebody who's maybe not used to playing those conditions,

1607
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 9: or more of a passing attack, or maybe you've got,

1608
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 9: like the Browns, a great secondary. You go up against

1609
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 9: a team that likes to throw the football, you can

1610
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 9: lock down their pass catchers, and you can pull up

1611
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 9: sets in those ways. But also I think the second

1612
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 9: most important thing going in the playoffs is momentum, is

1613
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 9: hot streaks that you're on. And certainly the Browns the Ravens,

1614
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 9: I think, even from an unbiased perspective, those are probably

1615
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 9: the two best teams right now in the AFC, with

1616
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 9: the Bills, you know, just a little bit behind, and

1617
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 9: I mean, it's anybody's game. And that's what I love

1618
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 9: about the NFL playoffs right. A lot of times you say, Okay, well,

1619
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,719
Speaker 9: you know, this team's really hot, they got great quarterback,

1620
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 9: especially a couple of years ago when the Chiefs will

1621
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 9: really well, and you're like, all right, I don't know

1622
01:16:57,800 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 9: who's going to beat the Chiefs. But this year, you

1623
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 9: get in advance, you've got a chance, and I feel

1624
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 9: really good. And I think that's part of the reason

1625
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:06,600
Speaker 9: that Thursday is going to be so rocking, because I

1626
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 9: think Brown fans feel it. They understand how good this

1627
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 9: defense is, how great this offense has been playing with

1628
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 9: Joe Flacco, and just a momentum that this and the

1629
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 9: confidence that this team is playing with that they can

1630
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 9: beat anybody.

1631
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 4: Begin you're training now, right now, get off the phone,

1632
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 4: begin the training. Have some hops, beef, so a building

1633
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 4: that muscle, forging that flame, because we might need you

1634
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 4: to fly back in from Germany when this thing gets serious.

1635
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 9: I started my training on de Summer twenty third, when

1636
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 9: I ate my first Christmas dinner, and then the twenty

1637
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 9: fourth when we ate our second Christmas dinner, and it's

1638
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 9: just been rolling. There's been not a single night that

1639
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 9: didn't end with at least seven or eight different Christmas

1640
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 9: cookies before bed. So I'm about halfway back up to

1641
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:51,679
Speaker 9: my plan. Way, So give me another couple of weeks

1642
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 9: of Christmas meals every night and I think I'll be

1643
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 9: over three hundred by January eighth.

1644
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 4: Yes, this is what we need. This is the content

1645
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:02,600
Speaker 4: we need. Hoff can't wait to see you. Thanks for

1646
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 4: the time as always today and this is gonna be

1647
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 4: hopefully an absolute blast in Cleveland on Thursday night.

1648
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,959
Speaker 9: Love you, buddy. I cannot wait to see you on Thursday.

1649
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 9: It's gonna be an atmosphere that I don't know if

1650
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:18,759
Speaker 9: I've ever experienced at Cleveland Brown Stadium, and I cannot

1651
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 9: wait for it. Man, it's going to be amazing the same.

1652
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 4: Say much love to the Hof. Let the training commence.

1653
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Speaker 4: When we come back, you heard the Hof talking about

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Speaker 4: him January. Joe Flacco. We've got him at the podium

1660
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Speaker 4: from earlier today.

1661
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Speaker 3: And if it takes the shotgun step back to throw

1662
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 3: pastime Paul deflected up in the air and it is intercepted.

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Speaker 3: Joka has it for the proud. He's down to the

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Speaker 12: Joe, how excited are you for the opportunity to clinch

1672
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:28,799
Speaker 12: a playoff spot?

1673
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 8: Potentially on Thursday.

1674
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, listen, we talked about it a little

1675
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 11: bit after the game this past week. It seems like

1676
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 11: every week, you know, you Mark, you look at the

1677
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 11: game and you're like, man, this is a big one.

1678
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 11: This is a big one, and it's just another one

1679
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 11: of those. I think we just once again, we can

1680
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 11: worry about that when the game's all said and done,

1681
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:46,679
Speaker 11: but just go out.

1682
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 8: There and focus on winning.

1683
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,599
Speaker 12: You've been You've been through a lot of big games

1684
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:52,640
Speaker 12: the course of your career. But is it even for

1685
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 12: you a little bit surreal that you know, two months

1686
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 12: ago you didn't have a team and now you've got

1687
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 12: a chance to clinch a a couple of.

1688
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 11: Days ago, I guess to a certain extent, But when

1689
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,639
Speaker 11: you come back out here and you kind of get

1690
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 11: with everybody and you start playing games, you kind of

1691
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 11: fall right back into feeling like, uh, you've been doing

1692
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,759
Speaker 11: this for a while, so at this point it feels

1693
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 11: pretty good to just be back out of there and

1694
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 11: all that you show.

1695
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:17,679
Speaker 8: You're a big story in New York this week?

1696
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 10: What do you feel about the Jackson I'm not calling you.

1697
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 11: Back and you're waiting to get on Listen, Man, it

1698
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 11: you know, there's all kinds of things that happened throughout

1699
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 11: the course of the season and an off season and

1700
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 11: things like that. And I enjoyed my time while I

1701
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 11: was there, and you know, it is what it is.

1702
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 8: I'm happy to be where I am, that's for sure. Listen.

1703
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,600
Speaker 11: There's there's thirty two teams in the NFL. They're just

1704
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,680
Speaker 11: another one of those teams. I got a lot of

1705
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:44,759
Speaker 11: got a lot of guys over there I really respect

1706
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 11: and had had an awesome few years with in that

1707
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 11: locker room.

1708
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:49,639
Speaker 8: So a lot of respect for those guys.

1709
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 9: Shoue.

1710
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 14: What's been the most kind of surreal moment over the

1711
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 14: course of the last month or so as you kind

1712
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 14: of gone through this whole thing, you know, the moment

1713
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:03,640
Speaker 14: where you're doing you know, maybe left you shaking your

1714
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 14: head the most.

1715
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 11: Yeah, Listen, I think to a certain extent, you can

1716
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:07,640
Speaker 11: look at the whole thing and do that if you

1717
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 11: want to. But like I said, I think when you're

1718
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 11: in the moment, you just kind of fall back into

1719
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 11: you know, another season, another locker room and going out

1720
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 11: there and playing football. And when you're on the field

1721
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 11: on Sundays and you're playing football, you can find you know,

1722
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 11: you you can feel like you're at home, so that

1723
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:25,880
Speaker 11: that stuff kind of goes away. And like I said,

1724
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:27,600
Speaker 11: I'm not really thinking about that all that stuff at

1725
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 11: this point. If I wanted to, like I said, it

1726
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:30,719
Speaker 11: could probably.

1727
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 8: Be all of it.

1728
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 11: But you know, at this point, it's just go out

1729
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 11: there and play and you know, try to make it

1730
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 11: as normal as possible.

1731
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 10: We have to come in after the game Sunday that that

1732
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 10: you're playing, you could watch games, whereas when you weren't playing,

1733
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 10: you're kind of better about that playing And then cross

1734
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 10: your mind that the Jets didn't caught you considering what

1735
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 10: they went through the fourth player.

1736
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 8: No, not really.

1737
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,639
Speaker 11: The only reason to cross my mind is because people

1738
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 11: ask me hey, or the Jet's gonna call you, like

1739
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 11: as soon as something happened, you know, like all your

1740
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 11: buddies and everybody like that. But other than that, no,

1741
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 11: it really hasn't.

1742
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:06,799
Speaker 4: What's the most.

1743
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 16: Challenging aspects of having the quick turnaround being on the

1744
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 16: road in Houston and you got to come back and

1745
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 16: play on Thursday down Now.

1746
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:15,760
Speaker 11: I think always when you're talking about these Thursday games,

1747
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 11: it's gonna be.

1748
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 8: The physicality of it.

1749
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 11: You know, maybe not for the quarterback necessarily. But when

1750
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 11: you're talking about football, you're talking about, you know, playing

1751
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 11: a really physical game, and that's the most important thing

1752
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 11: when it comes down to it in terms of winning games.

1753
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 8: It's the battles and the trenches.

1754
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:34,640
Speaker 11: So I think that's always the number one thing that

1755
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 11: you talk about when you talk about these games.

1756
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 4: Now, what about the fact that.

1757
01:22:38,439 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 15: You guys still have an opportunity to win the AFCI

1758
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,920
Speaker 15: when you've been through a lot of like really needed

1759
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 15: afcior balles.

1760
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:49,719
Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna be easy, but it's.

1761
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 11: Still differat Yeah, I I don't think that's something that

1762
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 11: we can think about. You know, Kevin's really big on

1763
01:22:56,240 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 11: one to know, and you know, all that other stuff

1764
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 11: kind of falls into place. You just got to go

1765
01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 11: out there and take care of business on the field

1766
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 11: and then when the dust settles, you look up and

1767
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:08,759
Speaker 11: see where you are. But it's really not that important.

1768
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 4: Now that you've won, you've got a month.

1769
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 12: How do you feel physically compared to say, like a

1770
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 12: decade ago, you are just your body? Is it really

1771
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 12: a turn back to block situation?

1772
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 2: Now?

1773
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 11: Listen, quarterback is like a week to week thing in

1774
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 11: terms of how you feel physically. Some weeks you can

1775
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 11: you know, you can have you can be sore into

1776
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 11: Wednesday and Thursday, and other weeks you can feel great

1777
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 11: on Monday and Tuesday. I still feel like my body

1778
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 11: responds pretty well. I'm probably a little bit unrealistic in

1779
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 11: that maybe I don't quite remember being twenty five years

1780
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 11: old anymore. But you know, there's so many tools that

1781
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,839
Speaker 11: we have available today, and people are so much more

1782
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 11: just aware generally of how to.

1783
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 8: Kind of.

1784
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 11: Keep your body in shape in the way it should be,

1785
01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:01,600
Speaker 11: and then react these kind of things the way it

1786
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 11: should be. So I feel really good about where my

1787
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 11: body is. But these guys have also done a great

1788
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 11: job of protecting me.

1789
01:24:07,439 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 8: So that's been great. Christmas, Larny was that. M Oh

1790
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 8: it was great.

1791
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 11: I mean I I think I slept into like seven

1792
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 11: thirty and got a call from my wife because they

1793
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 11: were still back back home, and they did the whole

1794
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 11: Christmas morning thing, and I was I kind of was

1795
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 11: sitting there on the table on FaceTime and they weren't

1796
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 11: paying any attention to me, So, you know, I hung

1797
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:30,680
Speaker 11: out for a little bit, but then I was like,

1798
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 11: all right, I'll talk to you later. Get me off

1799
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 11: of this thing. Let them have fun. And then they

1800
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 11: flew out yesterday afternoon. So like yesterday evening, they got.

1801
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 10: Here and they.

1802
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:43,120
Speaker 8: Got some browns.

1803
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 11: Here they are they they came in with some, they

1804
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 11: got some more. Uh, they're all loaded up, that's for sure.

1805
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 5: These five weeks faster to feel like a long time

1806
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 5: ago that you.

1807
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 8: Shoot them here.

1808
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 11: Time time flies, man, weeks weeks like don't even exist anymore.

1809
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 11: The months barely do you look up and it's like,

1810
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 11: you know, I mean, shoot, man, it's almost it's almost

1811
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 11: twenty twenty four. Here a couple more days and we're

1812
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 11: looking at that.

1813
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 8: So time flies, it goes quick.

1814
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 7: Hey, Joe, when you got here, obviously your confidence was

1815
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:14,479
Speaker 7: high that you could still play.

1816
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 8: Maybe your expectations were a little tempered.

1817
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 10: I don't know, has this been beyond what you even

1818
01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 10: expected in terms of production and how well things have gone?

1819
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you could probably say that just in

1820
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 11: terms of like, you know, you think you're coming into

1821
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 11: a good situation with a good team, and there's there's

1822
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 11: a possibility for this, but you never quite know. It's

1823
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:34,800
Speaker 11: up to you and your teammates have.

1824
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 8: Go out there and do that.

1825
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 11: And I think that this has been I think what

1826
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 11: I'm what I've probably.

1827
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 8: Noticed is that you you assume, you.

1828
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 11: Kind of from the outside think this is a pretty

1829
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 11: good situation, but when you get here, it's an even

1830
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 11: better situation than you could have imagined. So you've got

1831
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 11: so many games here is a visit, so you haven't

1832
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 11: seen this home crowd celebrate that often.

1833
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 4: So what do you think it could.

1834
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,400
Speaker 8: Be like Thursday night with a chance that cuinships way

1835
01:25:58,400 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 8: out there.

1836
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 11: I haven't really thought about it, you know, to be

1837
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 11: honest with you, how they would, how they would kind

1838
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 11: of take it in, but it it could definitely be

1839
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 11: a really cool moment. I just have to go out

1840
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 11: there and make it happen on Thursday last year. Yeah, sorry, Yeah,

1841
01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:23,959
Speaker 11: it definitely the craziest finish and therefore pretty pretty damn memorable.

1842
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 11: I mean, listen, you guys, there was like a ninety

1843
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 11: nine point nine chance in that game. I mean you

1844
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 11: kind of feel like you're out of it. I mean

1845
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 11: in one in one respect, it is so memorable just

1846
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 11: because of that, and and the other side of it,

1847
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 11: you're kind of thinking, man, that's just so random, Like

1848
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,639
Speaker 11: how lucky did we did we get? You know, there's

1849
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 11: so many things that have to happen there, so you know,

1850
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 11: you see it every week, you know, every no matter what,

1851
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 11: these games tend to come down to the last couple

1852
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:52,679
Speaker 11: of minutes.

1853
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 8: And that was just another one of.

1854
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:57,640
Speaker 4: Those connection with Am just worked so well for you.

1855
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 8: I mean, I've said it a million times. He's an

1856
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 8: unbelievable player.

1857
01:27:02,439 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 11: And that's I think that's as simple as of an

1858
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 11: answer as.

1859
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 8: It can be, and it's just the truth.

1860
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 11: He's he's really good and he makes it go back.

1861
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 12: To physically, how you feel in terms of the arm

1862
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 12: strength and how the passes are coming out.

1863
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 8: How would you compare that now to say.

1864
01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 11: The year ten years of does it feel like my ye, listen,

1865
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 11: you hate to like try to talk about yourself in

1866
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 11: a somewhat positive light, but my.

1867
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 8: Arm feels great, you know.

1868
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 11: I I think I don't know if I can throw

1869
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 11: the ball quite as far as I did back then,

1870
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 11: probably because I don't take time out of my day

1871
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 11: to work on throwing the ball, you know, as far

1872
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,879
Speaker 11: as I can anymore. But in terms of arm strength

1873
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:50,640
Speaker 11: and you know, just on the intermediate routes and all

1874
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 11: those types of things and keeping my arm in shape,

1875
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 11: I think that's the biggest thing.

1876
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 8: I feel the same as I always have. You're good,

1877
01:27:59,600 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 8: You're good.

1878
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 7: Christmas party I went to, everybody was talking about Joe Flagam.

1879
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 10: Have you gotten his sense of how you kind of

1880
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:07,599
Speaker 10: captured this town.

1881
01:28:07,400 --> 01:28:09,720
Speaker 8: In such a short time. The city has been unbelievable.

1882
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 11: I mean, I can't say enough about how welcoming everybody

1883
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 11: has been, especially that is the one strange part I

1884
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 11: would say, not necessarily putting on the uniform and playing,

1885
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:24,719
Speaker 11: but just coming from Baltimore for most of my career

1886
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,240
Speaker 11: and just seeing everybody out in your regular part of

1887
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 11: your day and how welcoming the city's been. You know,

1888
01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:35,639
Speaker 11: back to the surreal thing that's probably been. That's that

1889
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 11: would probably be a good answer for that. It's definitely

1890
01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:40,759
Speaker 11: been a little bit surreal in terms of how people

1891
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 11: have treated me around here.

1892
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 8: It's that that stuff always feels.

1893
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 11: Good, you know, So hopefully we can keep it going

1894
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:53,560
Speaker 11: for him. The Baltimore games and just how good is

1895
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 11: that team And when ranged I just watched a few plays.

1896
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,559
Speaker 8: My boys were in there. We let them watch the

1897
01:28:59,560 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 8: first half.

1898
01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 11: Uh dude, They're always there, man, They're they're they're they're

1899
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:11,759
Speaker 11: they're great organization. Uh, really well coached, a ton of talent,

1900
01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 11: and they make sure they bring the right guys in

1901
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 11: that are going to fight for sixty minutes and they're

1902
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 11: gonna be able to deal with adversity. You know, you

1903
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 11: you could talk those guys up forever. They're just a

1904
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 11: really good football team. That's why they're in it every

1905
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:29,639
Speaker 11: single year. And when they're really rolling, they get better

1906
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:31,840
Speaker 11: as the year goes on, they get more physical and

1907
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 11: all those things. So the standard stuff, I think for

1908
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 11: those guys, I think they should be excited where they are.

1909
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 4: For sure this.

1910
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 7: Scheme on hers, I know, have some rosters changed, But

1911
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 7: your experience with.

1912
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 4: The Jets going against the thirty sense during pross does

1913
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:46,280
Speaker 4: that become.

1914
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:47,760
Speaker 3: Put in this story?

1915
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 8: You know you kind of have that in the back

1916
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 8: of your mind. Does it help? Does it hurt? They're

1917
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 8: probably thinking it helps them. Maybe I'm thinking it helps me.

1918
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 8: Who knows.

1919
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 11: H You know, you're running a slightly different offense. They're

1920
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 11: a whole nother year evolved and to what they really

1921
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,680
Speaker 11: feel like they do well. So I think at the

1922
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:08,000
Speaker 11: end of the day, once you kind of cross over

1923
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Speaker 11: the white on game day, that's really what matters. So

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Speaker 11: all that kind of other stuff goes aside.

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Speaker 4: Join Ken Carmen and Gerrod Cherry tonight for the Browns

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Speaker 4: Preview Show on the University Hospitals Cleveland Browns Radio Network.

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Speaker 4: Defensive End Alex Wright and the Voice of the Browns

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Speaker 4: Jim Donovan join the guys tonight again tonight as we

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Speaker 4: get you ready for Thursday Night football and the Jets

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Speaker 4: real quick. Some news from the Jets. Zach Wilson is out,

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Speaker 4: Trevor Simon will start at quarterback. Kicker Greg Zerline might

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Speaker 4: be out. He is dealing with a quad injury. The

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Speaker 4: next level is next. Thanks for joining us on this

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Speaker 4: victory Tuesday edition of Cleveland Browns Daily, brought to you

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Speaker 4: by Bally Bett.

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