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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right

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Speaker 1: with Nick Right, the best takes and moments from this

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Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. For one of the first

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Speaker 1: times in this show's history, we are going to start

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Speaker 1: with Shadoor Sanders, but we're not actually starting with Shador,

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Speaker 1: and so that sounds silly, but here's the point I'm making.

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Speaker 1: So Shoudor came in, he obviously was terrible. He was

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Speaker 1: four of sixteen. It's the worst completion percentage by a

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Speaker 1: guy who threw at least ten passes in four years

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It was a game that the Browns

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Speaker 1: could have in. One would correctly argue what even should

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Speaker 1: have won with just typical bad quarterback play. Instead, Gabriel

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Speaker 1: was terrible, and then Shador came in and was somehow worse,

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Speaker 1: and they lose and the Ravens escape with a win

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Speaker 1: they didn't not really deserve, despite Miles Garrett, who might

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Speaker 1: get twenty five sacks this year, just playing at an

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Speaker 1: all time level. But the reason I'm starting with Shador

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Speaker 1: is because this morning Twitter was down for a bit,

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Speaker 1: and I think Twitter has I want to make sure

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Speaker 1: I use the right word warped. People's brains and ability

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Speaker 1: to discuss Chador Sanders in a way, it's such an

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Speaker 1: what you have and what Twitter has rewarded from content

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Speaker 1: creators is the most idiotic Chadore Sanders takes being so

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Speaker 1: amplified and being so force fed to anyone who has

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Speaker 1: any type of sports algorithm that you have folks who

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Speaker 1: know better, or at least should know better, polluting the

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Speaker 1: public discourse with just nonsensical misinformation. And so you've got

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Speaker 1: and it's on. And this is one of the rare

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Speaker 1: things where it is really a both sides problem. You

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Speaker 1: have folks who gain traction and get engagement by finding

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Speaker 1: anything imaginable to criticize Shador for up to an including

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Speaker 1: where he's sitting on the bench during and after a game,

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Speaker 1: because that gets in engagement. And then you have on

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Speaker 1: the other end of it, folks acting as if it

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Speaker 1: takes a grand conspiracy for a fifth round pick, third

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Speaker 1: string quarterback to not have reps with the starting offense,

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Speaker 1: when it is totally reasonable that during training camp a

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Speaker 1: guy who was not actually ever maybe you think he

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Speaker 1: should have been competing for the starting job he wasn't

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Speaker 1: the Browns. Again, you can make the argument that the

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Speaker 1: Browns simply don't know what they're doing. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the biggest Shador fans out there how they they

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Speaker 1: can make that argument. I don't know how they square

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Speaker 1: the fact that the entire league said he's not worth

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Speaker 1: a first, second, third, or fourth round pick, and I

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Speaker 1: understand it. There was some league wide conspiracy talk. It's

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Speaker 1: all so stupid, but set all that aside. In training camp,

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Speaker 1: the Browns looked at Joe Flacco as their starter and

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Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel of the two young guys, as the higher

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Speaker 1: priority because he was the higher draft pick. That's how

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Speaker 1: that works. And then once Dylan Gabriel became the starter,

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Speaker 1: they looked at their third round rookie as a guy

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Speaker 1: who needed as much practice reps as possible, so they

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Speaker 1: were not splitting practice reps, which is totally and completely reasonable.

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Speaker 1: Life is a fifth round pick in this league is hard.

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Speaker 1: It is supposed to be hard, and it's not always fair.

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Speaker 1: You get thrown into action and you have to look

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Speaker 1: better than Shador did, and it feels like, deep down,

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Speaker 1: people who know better know that, but deep down folks

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Speaker 1: also know, oh my god, this really gets people going,

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Speaker 1: and it's just so dumb. And so now what we

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Speaker 1: will get is this week Schador is gonna get a

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Speaker 1: real look. He will be the starter against the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: He will get the full week of practice, he will

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Speaker 1: get a game plan to his strength, you know, catered

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Speaker 1: to him, and we'll see what he looks like. And

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Speaker 1: typically in sports, if you're good enough, none of the

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Speaker 1: other stuff really matters, and you don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of as a fifth round quarterback, you're not gonna have

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Speaker 1: a ton of better opportunities than this one. Knowing you

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Speaker 1: are the starter all week long, going against a bad

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Speaker 1: team that is on a shorter week themselves, and an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to remake at least temporarily that Brown's quarterback discussion,

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Speaker 1: because Gabriel has been really bad and if Shodor goes

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Speaker 1: out there in balls, maybe he gets another week. But

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Speaker 1: the my colleagues in the media that know it's not

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Speaker 1: at all outrageous for should or to have no reps

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Speaker 1: with the ones and implying or outright saying differently because

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Speaker 1: either they want to be in good with Prime, or

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Speaker 1: it's what they think their particular fans or followers will appreciate,

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Speaker 1: on the Internet. It's so bad and it really is

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Speaker 1: a good example of this is a real example of

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Speaker 1: social media at times making the discourse dumber. And so

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Speaker 1: that's why I want to spend a few minutes on it.

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Speaker 1: Off the top, we don't have to spend more time

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think Dylan Gabriel has been the worst

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Speaker 1: in that Ravens game, he looked like a guy who

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Speaker 1: was wholly unequipped for the job. And I didn't listen.

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Speaker 1: I didn't love him coming out of school, but I

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Speaker 1: certainly liked him more coming out of school than Dylan Gabriel,

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Speaker 1: And because he has played, you know, throughout the entirety

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Speaker 1: the country's most talked about sport When it comes to

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Speaker 1: is the Lebron commentariot has spawned just some truly ridiculous

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Speaker 1: and upon reflection, hilarious moments. And these are from for me,

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Speaker 1: that right? No, it's not right. Thirteen years ago, my

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Speaker 1: dear pal Dan Lebotard announced Lebron was on the downside

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to take cheap shots here. Famously, the owner

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Speaker 1: the NBA's got it from here. It was actually nine

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Speaker 1: speaking of the double digit point streak, one of those

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Speaker 1: which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle, Lebron recognizes

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Speaker 1: dominating and they are a very up and down team.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it throughout the year that the Jags are

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Speaker 1: not really able to build on successes. They beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: then immediately lose back to back to the Seahawks and Rams.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Raiders in you know, not miracle, but

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Speaker 1: the Raiders have a two point conversion in overtime to

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Speaker 1: beat them. They then respond by blowing a horrified by

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Speaker 1: blowing a nineteen point fourth quarter lead to the Texans.

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Speaker 1: They blow out the Chargers. They're now on the road,

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Speaker 1: going cross country to the Cardinals, and I'm getting three

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Speaker 1: whole points. I will take Arizona plus three, and then,

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Speaker 1: in a game that might shock the audience that I

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Speaker 1: am including Cleveland in Shador's first start, getting three and

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Speaker 1: a half at the Raiders. This is very simple. That

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Speaker 1: Raiders offensive line against that Browns defensive line is the

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Speaker 1: single biggest mismatch of the week. I do not care

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Speaker 1: who is playing quarterback for Cleveland. Miles Garrett could set

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Speaker 1: the single game and single season sack record in this game.

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Speaker 1: The all time sack record for a game is seven

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Speaker 1: Derek Thomas, late Great kansaity chief. The all time sack

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Speaker 1: record for a season is twenty two and a half.

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Speaker 1: So if Miles Garrett got eight, he would set the

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Speaker 1: season and game record. He could do that against this

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Speaker 1: Raiders offensive line. I will take Cleveland plus the three

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Speaker 1: and a half. So my five picks this weekend are

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Speaker 1: the Bears laying two and a half at home against Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: the Jets getting thirteen and a half at Baltimore, Seattle

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Speaker 1: laying thirteen and a half at Tennessee, Arizona getting three

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, and Cleveland getting three and a half at

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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders