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Speaker 1: We welcome you into the best podcast available. It is

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Speaker 1: a special edition of the best podcast available. Why the

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Speaker 1: two thousand, twenty two slash twenty three NFL schedule and

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Speaker 1: your Cleveland Brown Schedule has officially been released. We are

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Speaker 1: brought to you by a Cross Country Mortgage and Andrew

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Speaker 1: Gribble joins me along with the voice of the Browns,

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Speaker 1: Jim Donovan, to break it all down for you. We'll

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Speaker 1: go game by game through it all. Uh. The good

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Speaker 1: news is we don't play on Christmas Day, we don't

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Speaker 1: play on Thanksgiving, and uh, you know, we have a

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Speaker 1: couple of primetime games which we'll get to. But uh, Gribbs,

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you. Your your first thought looking through

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Speaker 1: this entire schedule. Yeah, I mean, it's it's one that

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Speaker 1: I think it's the best I've felt about a schedule

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Speaker 1: just kind of works out pretty normally. I like, just personally,

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the more frontloaded schedules in

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Speaker 1: And I think that that's just good for Cleveland. It's

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Speaker 1: good for fans to to get to experience, uh, what

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Speaker 1: we hope is some some lovely fall weather First Energy

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Speaker 1: Stadium in the in the first couple of months of

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Speaker 1: the season. But on the other side of that, that

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Speaker 1: means you're backloaded with road games, and this is a

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Speaker 1: nine road games schedule, So the second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna determine the fade to this team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's some big, big games in the second

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Speaker 1: half of the season, and a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: which you don't see all that often. So if the

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Speaker 1: Browns are gonna be playing uh games in January at

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Speaker 1: at First Energy Stadium, they've got to make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: because they don't have any on this schedule. Jim, your

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Speaker 1: thoughts as you take a look at this schedule. I

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Speaker 1: think that, um, if you were ever built to get

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Speaker 1: have been so many times where you come out of

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Speaker 1: And I know that wasn't the case last year, but

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Speaker 1: I think the schedule kind of is built that you

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Speaker 1: always good. And then I think October becomes a real

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Speaker 1: alluding to what Andrew says, I mean, when it's front

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Speaker 1: loaded all of a sudden, you have to pay your

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Speaker 1: taxes after that, and I think in October you kind

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Speaker 1: of get into a bit of a meat grinder, and

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Speaker 1: you've got tough game after tough game, whether it's home

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Speaker 1: or away. And then I think, Jason we Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we we have that typical end of the season bus

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Speaker 1: mood is going to be going over and more importantly,

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Speaker 1: what's the mood gonna be like on those buses when

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Speaker 1: you're coming back after that. That's the way we finished.

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Speaker 1: Been quite some stories about those bus rides home at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, coming back from Hines Field.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get right down to it. Week one

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Speaker 1: on the road. So the last couple of seasons, uh,

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Speaker 1: you will take on the Carolina Panthers in week one.

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Speaker 1: It's Jim It's a very very winnable football game, it

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Speaker 1: really is. And boy, what a game it would have

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Speaker 1: been if on Draft weekend the trade had been engineered

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Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield would have ended up with the Carolina Panthers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: You're right, And my god, we are overdue to win

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Speaker 1: an opening game of the season. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: It really is. It's it's a mental hole that you

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Speaker 1: that will be an electric environment to start the year.

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Speaker 1: All right, Gribbs, I'll go to you then for game

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Speaker 1: number two, week two of the season, the home opener,

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Speaker 1: it will come against the New York Football Jets, and

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Speaker 1: I know we've talked about it on Cleveland Browns Daily,

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Speaker 1: and Jim, I know you were on Cleveland Brown's Daily

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Speaker 1: earlier in the week. This is a Jets team, I

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Speaker 1: think you'd rather face early later in the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just think that it's they're going to

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Speaker 1: it's as far as home opener ideal matchups, this was

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Speaker 1: But you gotta take care of business. We we took

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson. He had a couple of really good performances

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Speaker 1: near the end of the season. He's gotten bigger physically

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Speaker 1: interesting the big adjustment. How much does a team take

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers come to First Energy Stadium, first conference game, Jim,

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Speaker 1: and it's a big one right off the get go

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Speaker 1: Week four, GRIBs, I'll go to you on this one.

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Speaker 1: A trip to Atlanta to kick off the month of October,

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Speaker 1: and it's a busy month of October. You've got five

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you. It's a trip to Miami after

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Speaker 1: the bye week November thirteenth. It's an interesting football team.

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Speaker 1: It's a team that's improved. Not sure they're improved at

432
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. We're gonna find out on November. Yeah,

433
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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a pretty good sense of where

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are at at that point. Uh. It's it's

435
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Speaker 1: you like getting them a little later in the year.

436
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Speaker 1: Remember we went there pretty early in the year, and

437
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 1: it's a pretty miserable place to be in September. It's hot.

438
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Speaker 1: If you're not used to that, it can be tough

439
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Speaker 1: on your team. So I think that at least getting

440
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Speaker 1: in the November it will be a nice treat for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's it's again. It's the beginning of an

442
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Speaker 1: important stretch. Will be rested, no excuses in that regard.

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Speaker 1: But it's four road games in five weeks. You've got

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Speaker 1: to start it off on the right foot. And Miami

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Speaker 1: is one of those teams that could be really good

446
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Speaker 1: this year or they could be kind of just stuck

447
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Speaker 1: in the mud with with kind of a make or

448
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,880
Speaker 1: break here for two of them. Yeah, after Miami, it's

449
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Speaker 1: a trip to Buffalo and a trip to take on

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Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia November one o'clock in Buffalo. Uh Jim. Again,

451
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Speaker 1: it's another It's another big game against a team that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people think is one of the top

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Speaker 1: three teams in the NFL. After the offseason. They've had,

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Speaker 1: oh I think so um and a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: on them coming into this season, no doubt about it,

456
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Speaker 1: because they have been close, uh to to get into

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Speaker 1: where they ultimately want to get to UM and I

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Speaker 1: think that they're feeling, you know, they don't want to

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Speaker 1: be termed as one of these teams that just could

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Speaker 1: never get over the hurdles. So um, and they are

461
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: right at the they're right at that hurdle. You know,

462
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Speaker 1: this falls into this is interesting. This kind of has

463
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Speaker 1: a look of the possibility of being a flex game.

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Speaker 1: That that this game, if it really lives up to

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Speaker 1: both teams being again, like I said about the Cincinnati game,

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Speaker 1: both teams being what you think they're going to be,

467
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Speaker 1: and if it you know, at that time of the year,

468
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Speaker 1: you have a pretty good, pretty good knowledge of where

469
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Speaker 1: they're going and could they be playoff teams that you

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Speaker 1: would take a look at that game and say, Man,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's got that's got a lot to it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you know, maybe this the Stars along an NBC

473
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Speaker 1: would say, hey, we want that game on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's that good of a game at

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Speaker 1: least on paper. Um, Josh Allen is magnificent. We caught

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Speaker 1: him very very early. Uh and even though the Bronze

477
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Speaker 1: ended up beating them with a miraculous come from behind

478
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Speaker 1: victory that day and then a missfield goal at the

479
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Speaker 1: end of the game, Josh Allen was tremendous that day

480
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Speaker 1: and he's only gotten better and better. So um, it's

481
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Speaker 1: now we're really heading into the teeth of all these

482
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Speaker 1: great quarterbacks both young and old, which takes us on

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Speaker 1: to November Thanksgiving weekend. We're home, We're not on the road.

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Speaker 1: It'll be an Action Pact weekend. You've got the World Cup,

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Speaker 1: I believe on Friday, Ohio State Michigan on Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: then Tampa Tom comes into town on Sunday. Tom Brady

487
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Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Uh come to First Energy

488
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Speaker 1: basically the only home game for the Brown's in November,

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Speaker 1: November grids and this will be a big one. This

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Speaker 1: will be a hot ticket at First Energy Stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how about that. Between the thirty one of October and

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Speaker 1: December seventeen, you will have played two games at home.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's it will get a little lonely by

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Speaker 1: the lake there, but it's better than kind of the

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Speaker 1: trifective games we've had in a row at that time

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Speaker 1: of the year where the weather is awful to beginning.

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Speaker 1: But I think to me that the thing that stood

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Speaker 1: out to me most of this game is this is

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Speaker 1: what happens when you don't make the playoffs. This is

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Speaker 1: a one o'clock game. I mean, I think last year

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Speaker 1: this game was on the schedule. This would be at

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Speaker 1: the worst of four o'clock if and the primetime kind

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Speaker 1: of game. I mean, but this shows that the NFL

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Speaker 1: makes you earn it. So if the Browns get back

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, then these kind of games will be

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Speaker 1: put in night. But god, I personally don't mind it.

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Speaker 1: I like being off the radar a little bit and

508
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Speaker 1: knocking off a lot of one o'clock games on the

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Speaker 1: schedule here, you know, And that goes back, Jim, you know,

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Speaker 1: to what you were talking about in terms of Sunday

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Speaker 1: night football. Not the the NFL can start flexing as

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Speaker 1: early as Week five this year. That is something that

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Speaker 1: bears watching, especially with this Browns football team. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me just throw this line out here. I kind

515
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Speaker 1: of wish that Tom would be in the broadcast booth

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Speaker 1: for Fox that day rather than on the field. Um.

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Speaker 1: He's always good for the gate too. If you remember

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Speaker 1: the last time he came into Cleveland. Um, and you

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Speaker 1: guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think

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Speaker 1: I'm right on this. The last time he came into Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: of course, he was the Patriots quarterback and he was

522
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Speaker 1: coming off suspension. Um. And if you can remember, I

523
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Speaker 1: will never forget the scene when he came running out

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Speaker 1: of the tunnel for his pregame warm up, and the

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Speaker 1: place it was like we were in Foxboro. I mean

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Speaker 1: there were more Boston accents in there on that afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Then there were you know, Brown's fans that day. So

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Speaker 1: I mean it was amazing the pull that he had

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Speaker 1: at that time, and of course he played up to that.

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Speaker 1: He had an amazing day that day. Now he comes

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Speaker 1: in with the new team. To me, it's still a

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Speaker 1: bit rattling to see him in a different uniform, even

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Speaker 1: though I mean he's been in it now for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years and been to the highest point of

535
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Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay. But when again,

536
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Speaker 1: another great game, because you know, in the past you

537
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Speaker 1: look at the Buccaneers and go, oh, it's the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: But I mean this is this is different though. Yeah

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Speaker 1: that those are three very tough games in the month

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Speaker 1: of November at Miami, at Buffalo, home to Tampa. On

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Speaker 1: to December, we go grids December four, a trip to Houston,

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Speaker 1: uh could be a homecoming game for our for our quarterback.

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Speaker 1: There could be a lot of storylines going into this one.

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Speaker 1: On December four in Houston at one o'clock. This is

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Speaker 1: a place that, again, we have not had a lot

546
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Speaker 1: of success winning in over the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: I think that honestly, And that's that's my big storyline,

548
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: is like because I think you're underselling it. I mean,

549
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Speaker 1: it's it's been a place where in the last few

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Speaker 1: meetings the bronze haven't showed up. I mean it's it's

551
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Speaker 1: just been a tough trip, even when the team, even

552
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Speaker 1: when the team was cooking, mean, they took us, they

553
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: had a speed bump in Houston in that year. I mean,

554
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: that's that's it's just been a weird environment for the Browns.

555
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: But uh, the guy that caused the most problems is

556
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: now on your team. So I think that's the that's

557
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: that's that's the positive thing about that. But a game

558
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: for in this stretch, you gotta win. I mean, the

559
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 1: Texans are going to be improved, but you gotta you

560
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: gotta win this one. I mean, it's it's with that

561
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Speaker 1: stretch on the schedule, yem. Um, it was when we

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Speaker 1: went in there and to play them, Um, it was

563
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: just so exasperated trying to defend him to Shawn Watson

564
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Speaker 1: because you just had no answer for him. Uh. And

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00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: it was no slam on any on the defense or anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean not many people had an answer for him.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you played him to pass and he

568
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: would run and kill you. You played him to run

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00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: and he would sit in that pocket or roll out

570
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: and and just take you apart. You know, with his

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Speaker 1: accuracy and his great arm um. There was just no

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Speaker 1: trough to it. I mean he was he just had

573
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: you just baffled the way he played. So yeah, he

574
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Speaker 1: was the reason. I will point out this gentleman. In

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Speaker 1: the days of Terry Robiski as the interim head coach

576
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Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns, he recorded his one and only

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Speaker 1: career victory is a head coach with the Browns on

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00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: a final Sunday where Kelly Holcomb did him a did

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Speaker 1: him a favor and came off the injured list with

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Speaker 1: bad knees and went out and got him a win.

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Speaker 1: I remember Terry Robiski walking off the field in Houston

582
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Speaker 1: with that win, with that game ball tucked under his arm.

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Speaker 1: He applied to become the regular head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Browns and they said, hold on to that game ball.

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Speaker 1: That's your parting gift the roads. Then after Houston. It's

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Speaker 1: back to back road games. This is the second road

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Speaker 1: game of the two and it's a trip back down

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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati UH and Paul Brown Stadium on December eleventh. Again,

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00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: this is a one o'clock game. But I feel like

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Speaker 1: once you get into December here, any of these games

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Speaker 1: are subject to maybe move around a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati on December eleventh at one o'clock, and then we

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Speaker 1: get to week fifteen. Could be December seventeen, could be

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Speaker 1: December eighteenth. We're up again for that fabulous NFL Network

595
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: triple header on Saturday against the Baltimore Ravens at First

596
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium. So something to watch. Their time to be determined,

597
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: day to be determined. But again, this whole gauntlet after

598
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Speaker 1: the bye week at Miami at Buffalo home for Tampa

599
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: at Houston, at Cincinnati, Baltimore a pretty daunting schedule, Jim

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Speaker 1: here coming out of the bye week. Yeah, it really is.

601
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Um. And that Ravens game, UM,

602
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: those games are just so important, um in the inside

603
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: that division because you really, I mean, that's the goal,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I think the Browns are there, and

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00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: I think everybody is there in the division because that's

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Speaker 1: the path you want. You don't want to be fooling around.

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Speaker 1: This is the time of the year, um, when you're

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Speaker 1: at this point where all of a sudden, every Sunday

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Speaker 1: you're watching all of those national telecasts, those pregame shows,

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to be in that column that

611
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: says in the hunt, you know, which means you need

612
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Speaker 1: to on the left side, you need ten things to

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Speaker 1: happen to try and get into the playoffs. You want

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Speaker 1: to be in that column that says currently holding onto

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Speaker 1: a division spot as the division leader, and that's where

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Speaker 1: you want to be at that point in time, and

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00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: these games will decide that. I mean, you know, you

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Speaker 1: want to build a foundation early and we touched upon

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Speaker 1: it when we started our discussion about you can really

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Speaker 1: with the schedule, get off to a good run in September,

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Speaker 1: but you have to pay your taxes by this time,

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Speaker 1: and you want to be making that run at this

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Speaker 1: time of the year because the schedule dictates. These are

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Speaker 1: the games that will decide who's gonna win the division,

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Speaker 1: who might be a wild card team, who's not invited

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. All right, we move on. We have

627
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Speaker 1: three games left to go. On our schedule, we don't

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Speaker 1: play on Christmas Day, but we do play on Rismas Eve,

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Speaker 1: and it will be a one o'clock game on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: It will be home, it will be against Chris Slabby

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Speaker 1: and the New Orleans Saints, and it will be the

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00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: final home game of the season. Knock on wood that

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00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: it will be just the final home game of the

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Speaker 1: regular season and we'll be playing some playoff football at

635
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Speaker 1: First Energy in January, but for now, that's the final

636
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: home game. Uh, and it's before January one, grips. I

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00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: love getting NFC South teams at home late in the season, though,

638
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: I think that that's always a decent thing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't even have the stats back this

640
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: up anymore, but the Saints notoriously tougher at home than

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00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: than on the road. But yeah, I mean, this is

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00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: a big one and hopefully, hopefully it can be as

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Speaker 1: magical as the last time the Browns played at home

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve. That's I'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 1: With the Jamie Meter magic on, I just want to

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Speaker 1: recreate that that kind of feeling at the stadium. Maybe

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Speaker 1: can you can you clinch a playoff Berth that early

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Speaker 1: uh in the schedule, that would be. That would make

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Speaker 1: it a magical Christmas Eve. Jamie Meat, what a great

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Speaker 1: moment that was. I'd like a little less drama and

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Speaker 1: we can have a little comfortable lead and just had

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Speaker 1: a just coast into Christmas. That would be fantastic. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the interesting thing too, is, um, the

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Speaker 1: Saints are one of these teams that I mean a

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Speaker 1: dramatic change. No Sean Payton, you know they bring Jamis

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Speaker 1: Winston back. Um, you know the whole situation with the Saints,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a dramatic change over where they have been,

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Speaker 1: uh in their heyday now coming you know, winning a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl with that group of Drew Brees too. Um,

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Speaker 1: it will be fascinating to see where they are at

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Speaker 1: that point. But Gripps is right, you get them on

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Speaker 1: the road late in the year, they're a much different team.

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Speaker 1: You get them outdoors, they're a much different team. Now

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Speaker 1: you put them in cold weather and I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: out on the limit and say it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: bit brisk down there on that on that particular day,

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Speaker 1: Fastiva Press. Yeah, I'm hoping let's let's hope for that.

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Speaker 1: We move on to weeks seventeen, and we ring in

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Speaker 1: the new year, literally on New Year's Day, a trip

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Speaker 1: to Washington, Jim and uh the Washington Commanders with a

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00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: lot more news probably off the field than on it

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Speaker 1: so far this offseason. But a good defense and they're

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Speaker 1: well coached. It'll be interesting to seeing Carson Wentz now

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Speaker 1: a quarterback for that. Yeah, you wonder will he still

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Speaker 1: be a quarterback at that point in time, Usually at

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Speaker 1: this time of the year, certainly last year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he kind of had petered out at this time. Um.

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Speaker 1: And the worst radio booth in the NFL? Uh, is

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Speaker 1: it not? Is it not? The worst radio booth in

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Speaker 1: the NFL? You are correct? Unbelievably bad. Um. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: don't you know, you know, I just don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't know what they're are You are right though,

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00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: a tremendous defense, great pass rush, just really an exciting defense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they have on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. I mean, and and you I don't

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Speaker 1: know how what's going on off the field might infect

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Speaker 1: what goes on on the field. With that organization, they

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00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: have been through a lot. Yeah, no question about it

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Speaker 1: and then Week eight team, you're at Pittsburgh, You're at

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Speaker 1: hines Field. It will either be January seven or it

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Speaker 1: will be January eight. Time to be determined to close

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Speaker 1: things out. And uh, let's hope that we can send

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Speaker 1: them all home after Renegade plays and make it a

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Speaker 1: negative impact. But it will be what you can only

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00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: hope that it is a very meaningful game, or it's

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Speaker 1: a hey, we're already in the playoffs. We can rest

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Speaker 1: a few guys. Yeah, hey, GRIBs. We have to prove

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Speaker 1: that we can beat them in hines Field with people

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Speaker 1: in field. We have taken baby steps, I mean, we

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Speaker 1: have kind of gotten competitive with them in hines Field.

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Speaker 1: Then we won the playoff game. But remember it was

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Speaker 1: Gribbs and fifty other people in hines Field that night

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Speaker 1: when we won the playoff game. But when we actually

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Speaker 1: put those towels in the hands of Steeler fans and

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Speaker 1: fill that place and take away the drama, the movie

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Speaker 1: drama of Big Ben's last game, that will be out

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Speaker 1: of the picture because we've lived through that. We have

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Speaker 1: to prove we can beat them with people in the stands.

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Speaker 1: That's the next step, truly, one of the strangest atmospheres

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Speaker 1: I've I've been a part of, because that was the

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Speaker 1: only road game I went to, and that was a

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Speaker 1: truly empty state, Like the Browns had twelve thousand at

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Speaker 1: each of their games. That was empty. I mean that

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Speaker 1: that was emptier than like a practice of training camp.

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Speaker 1: I mean. And I was right next to the Steelers

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Speaker 1: radio booth the entire time, felt the emotions they were feeling.

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Speaker 1: And I would say, I've told people about this. I

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Speaker 1: wonder what that place would have been like with the

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Speaker 1: Steelers mounting that comeback that they did in that game,

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Speaker 1: and how much that could have affected things because it

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Speaker 1: seemed like we were all even with the twenty eight

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Speaker 1: point lead. It felt a little nervous in the second

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Speaker 1: half when when the Steelers just kept marching down the field,

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Speaker 1: but and the Browns put it away and it was

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Speaker 1: it was. It's just an incredibly magic, magical, and incredibly

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Speaker 1: weird kind of playoff victory. Eighteen games, fourteen of them

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock, two proNT time games, but both prime

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Speaker 1: time games are at home. One in September against the

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Speaker 1: Steelers on Thursday Night, one in October against the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Bengals on Monday night, two games T B D. We'll

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Speaker 1: see how it all shakes out before I let you

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Speaker 1: guys go preseason wise, we're waiting on days and we're

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Speaker 1: waiting on time still. But one road game to home

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Speaker 1: at Jacksonville, uh, and then home for Philly after a

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Speaker 1: week of joint practices and home for Chicago, and then

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Speaker 1: we get ready for the regular season. So uh, it'll

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Speaker 1: be something that bears watching that one, you know. Another

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Speaker 1: trip to Jacksonville, Florida. Exactly. I put that a half

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Speaker 1: step above the Washington radio booth. That's about our trip

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Speaker 1: to jackson It just won't be the same though without

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Speaker 1: Herbert Meyer. Yeah, it won't be the same without Tebow there.

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Speaker 1: That might declient to decrease the fans by about exactly.

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Speaker 1: So the schedule is set and for more reaction and breakdown,

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Speaker 1: make sure you keep it locked uh to Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: dot com and all the Cleveland Browns media platforms. Jim Donovan,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time with you, all the best and we

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Speaker 1: look forward to talking with you soon here as we

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Speaker 1: continue through this Browns offseason phase two about done, getting

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Speaker 1: ready for O T A S and before we know it,

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Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp will be here. Gribbs appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: as well. Make sure you like and subscribe today to

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