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Speaker 1: No sleep till the playoffs. ESPN Cleveland's extended local pregame

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Speaker 1: on eight fifty ESPN Cleveland. Here are your hosts, Bo

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Speaker 1: Bishop and Nathan Zegura.

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Speaker 2: Oh baby, let's do it live on the football Friday

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Speaker 2: the playoffs tomorrow, Browns and Texans down in Houston. Merely

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Speaker 2: Bow and the Great z. We are loaded up as

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Speaker 2: only we would be. My friend, we are just one

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Speaker 2: sleep away.

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Speaker 3: I know, I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: I'm on the way as we speak right now, to

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Speaker 4: the team plane the head down to Houston. Certainly, I

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Speaker 4: think concerned about yesterday was Denzel Ward. I think with

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Speaker 4: the fact that he tweeted out that little video of

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Speaker 4: him running on the field doing his signature signature pose there,

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Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that. So I think that

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Speaker 4: is very very good news for the Cleveland Browns and

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Speaker 4: obviously for this big game against the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: That's one of those things where it hit us kind

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Speaker 2: of the show when all of a sudden he pops

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Speaker 2: up on an injury report and not sure what to

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Speaker 2: make of it, and coach, you said, and we'll find

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Speaker 2: out Saturday, and then you're just kind of sitting and waiting.

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Speaker 2: We found that report from Rapaport towards the end of

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Speaker 2: the show yesterday where he said, look, I think everything's

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Speaker 2: going to be okay. But certainly when you see that video, this,

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Speaker 2: after early this, after about an hour ago, when that

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Speaker 2: we're in a pretty good spot. And now in terms

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Speaker 2: of as healthy as you can be, the Browns would

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Speaker 2: certainly apply for that here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they are the one kind of loss that you

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Speaker 4: had dealing with. Obviously, Dustin Hopkins, we knew that he

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Speaker 4: would be out. Riley Patterson will kick, but Pierre Strong

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Speaker 4: with his back injury. The team elevated John Kelly the

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Speaker 3: Probably wasn't going to touch the football. A ton in

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Speaker 3: this game is our.

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Speaker 4: Kick returner and he's been very good on special teams coverage,

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Speaker 4: and so that's a little bit of a blow. And

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Speaker 4: you remember last time in Houston, special teams were not elite,

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Speaker 4: certainly not. I know Bubba vn Chon will have them ready,

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Speaker 4: But that's where I think the impact of Pierre Strong

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Do you think about that? What do you think would there?

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Speaker 4: Then at kickram uh, maybe they'll go with James Proche

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Speaker 4: I think last week, even when they took Pierre out,

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Speaker 4: I think he was the one that was doing it.

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Speaker 4: So for the Browns, yeah, that and then on the

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Speaker 4: flip side, you know your coverage team. The good news

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Speaker 4: is they didn't elevate a corner, so they obviously feel

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Speaker 4: good about Denzel and they feel good about Mike Ford.

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Speaker 4: And Mike Ford Junior has been a special team to

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Speaker 4: EIGHTCE all year long. So you'll have him, You'll have

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Speaker 4: major thing, but it is a thing. But to your point,

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Speaker 4: in terms of the significant players that are left not

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Speaker 3: Thornhill will be good to go for the Browns as well.

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Speaker 4: Ronnie Hickman's been playing so well, and I think you'll

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Speaker 2: Yea, that is big news with Thornhill getting back, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: the news with Denzel certainly the headline of the day.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this playoff game tomorrow afternoon, and

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Speaker 2: shape or form. There will be an atmosphere to this,

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, go take care of your business down there. I

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Speaker 3: They're going everywhere. I love it. I love it. I

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Speaker 4: And by the way, I know that you saw it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the word I'd use to describe it to

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Speaker 2: And that's what this whole season has been like. This

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Speaker 2: But just from the perspective of the situation here, we

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. I'll focus first on our quarterback,

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Speaker 4: Joe Flacco, and I know that a lot of people

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Speaker 4: I was talking with necessarlier who grew up here, they

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Speaker 3: I mean, whoever put.

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Speaker 4: That together, brilliant, good job, incredible. I've retweeted it, so

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Speaker 4: Flacos won five wild card games. That's tied for the

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Speaker 4: most in NFL history. Placo's won seven road playoff games,

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Speaker 4: things that are on our side, right, rookie quarterback against

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Speaker 4: to mention the fact that you're exactly right.

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Speaker 3: All you gotta do.

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Speaker 4: If you're you know, wanting to kill some time, you know,

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Speaker 4: it feels like a long, long wait to get there.

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Speaker 4: He is the sixth worst quarterback in the league against

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Speaker 2: The last game down there, just a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: The rushing stats. We've talked about him this week, We're

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Speaker 2: to be better. Yeah, put yourself and no one knows

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Speaker 4: I think you want to get your quarterback comfortable because

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Speaker 4: I think at the end of the day, Joe Flacco

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Speaker 3: Is going to you know, the offensive burden will fall

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Speaker 4: Last week, the Colts rush for over two hundred yards

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Speaker 4: you will be physical, you will do that. But this game,

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Speaker 4: to me, is going to be about getting Joe Flacco

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Speaker 4: a great pass defense. But but Joe Flacco did three

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Speaker 4: He is singularly the most disruptive defensive lineman in the

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Speaker 7: things on defense.

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Speaker 2: And as good as that defense has been, we would

439
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Speaker 2: not be having this conversation, i believe right now, and

440
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Speaker 2: certainly would not be able to the expectations that you

441
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Speaker 2: potentially have put on this Browns team in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: Without the play of Joe Flacco. Did you see this

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Speaker 2: coming at all? Chris, No, No, I did not like this.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 7: Now, Joe Flacco is somebody that I've stood on a

446
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Speaker 7: table for throughout his career, and go, he's so much

447
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Speaker 7: better than people ever give him credit for, especially in

448
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Speaker 7: his prime. Now, I understand, at the end of the

449
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Speaker 7: Baltimore Ravens run, it wasn't the best, and of course

450
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Speaker 7: they moved on and drafted Lamar Jackson. But you know,

451
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Speaker 7: I was still playing. I was on the two thousand

452
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Speaker 7: and eight Titans, the number one team in football that year,

453
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Speaker 7: and we were the number one seed, and Joe Flacco

454
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Speaker 7: as a rookie came into town and upset us. Right,

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Speaker 7: I mean I've seen Flacco in person a lot in

456
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Speaker 7: his prime. You talk about clutch, big game moments, hanging

457
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Speaker 7: in the pocket, elite arm, you know, way better athlete

458
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Speaker 7: than people realizing his prime. So yeah, it's been fun

459
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Speaker 7: for him. Hey, he's a Jersey guy like me, so

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that. And yeah, I mean it's just the

461
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Speaker 7: irony of the situation adds.

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Speaker 3: To it too.

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Speaker 7: I mean, the Ravens Browns, that whole connection truly incredible.

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Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean, if it weren't for him, I

465
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Speaker 7: know that, Yes, the Browns would not be where they

466
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Speaker 7: are because you guys couldn't run the ball there for

467
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Speaker 7: a little period of time, the injuries and tackles have

468
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Speaker 7: become an issue, and that's where Joe Flacco came in

469
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Speaker 7: to save the day to go, hey, wait, I can

470
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Speaker 7: be good enough throwing the ball here to keep us alive,

471
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Speaker 7: keep moving the ball and winning some football games. And

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Speaker 7: he's done great. But I'm not going to say I

473
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Speaker 7: don't have some concerns about the Browns as well, and

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Speaker 7: we can get into that as more as the conversation

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Speaker 7: goes here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. The one thing with Flacco that apparent to me,

478
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Speaker 2: but really this is it feels like him and Kevin

479
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Speaker 2: see the game the same way, Chris. If that makes

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Speaker 2: sense from runback perspective, more than a lot of the

481
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Speaker 2: other quarterbacks we've had through here, Yes, I would agree.

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Speaker 7: I mean it's it's you know, I think Cleveland, in

483
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Speaker 7: their perfect world, they want to run the ball, they

484
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Speaker 7: want to take deep shots down the field, play action whatever,

485
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Speaker 7: be aggressive that way, and then you're one of the

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Speaker 7: best screen teams in football. It's an incredible combination it

487
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Speaker 7: really is. And then Flacco, you know, like I talked

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Speaker 7: about it, it's one of the great arms. And there's

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Speaker 7: a reason every team he goes to, everybody talks about,

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Speaker 7: oh my gosh, Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 6: Throwing the ball.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 7: Right, your guys waxed poetically about it when he first

494
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Speaker 7: got there. TV doesn't do Joe Flaco justice for how

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Speaker 7: hard he throws the ball because he does it with

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Speaker 7: such ease. He's such a big guy. There's not a

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Speaker 7: lot of theatrics when he does throw a laser. It's

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Speaker 7: a perfect spiral, right. But where I worry about and

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Speaker 7: Stefanski and Flacco yet, they're great at throwing the ball

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Speaker 7: down the field outside the numbers. I think that's going

501
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Speaker 7: to be a key to beat the Texans again this week.

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Speaker 7: But where I worry about it? Okay, And where in

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Speaker 7: this I talk about Kevin Stefanski Coach of the Year

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Speaker 7: and all the things I like.

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Speaker 4: I don't like his game management.

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Speaker 5: I don't like that.

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Speaker 7: To me, that's some of the poor game management and football,

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Speaker 7: And that's where I worry.

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Speaker 3: About Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 7: Joe Flacco became a meme on the internet for a

511
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Speaker 7: while because he holds the ball forever in the pocket,

512
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Speaker 7: he gets stripsack fumbled, he throws interceptions, and doesn't always

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Speaker 7: see the ball clearly. And I've been talking on Football

514
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Speaker 7: Night in America for really about the last month that

515
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Speaker 7: they got to rein it in a little bit and

516
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Speaker 7: play through the defense. Super Bowl teams that played through

517
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Speaker 7: the defense twenty thirteen Seahawks, twenty fifteen Broncos, two thousand Ravens,

518
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Speaker 7: eighty six Giants, eighty five Bears. They don't go forward

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Speaker 7: on fourth and seven. They don't do that at midfield.

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Speaker 7: They don't go, Hey, it's thirteen to seven against the Jets,

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Speaker 7: and we just forced the fumble on a kick return,

522
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Speaker 7: and now we're gonna go for it on fourth and

523
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Speaker 7: seven on the goal line. They kick the field goal,

524
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Speaker 7: you go up sixteen to seven. You continue to physically

525
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Speaker 7: dominate the game, and then you look up and go, hey,

526
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Speaker 7: we're up thirty seven to seven now, and we just

527
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Speaker 7: did it the right way. To me, that's how Cleveland's

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Speaker 7: gonna get upset is stupid game management. And they're gonna go, man,

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Speaker 7: we outplayed this team, and Cleveland fans going, how to

530
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Speaker 7: we lose? I'm gonna go because it's just too aggressive

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Speaker 7: at times and it's crazy, and that to me is

532
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Speaker 7: not going to be the best way for Cleveland to

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Speaker 7: win the super Bowl or get to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to Butcher's your point, Chris, we've only won

535
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Speaker 2: the turnover battle three times this season. So we talk

536
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Speaker 2: about the turnover issue and some of that. There's a

537
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Speaker 2: clutch thing that we've had. But in terms of it

538
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Speaker 2: almost goes against the record to be eleven and six

539
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Speaker 2: and only when the turnover batterle three times it goes

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Speaker 2: it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, quite honestly,

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Speaker 2: in terms of how.

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Speaker 7: Talented you guys are. That's just how talented you are,

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Speaker 7: and how talented your defense is. To where like the

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Speaker 7: Bears game, I mean Flacko's throwing interceptions, it's turnovers. The

545
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Speaker 7: Bears get ball at the five, they can't get any points,

546
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Speaker 7: they kick a field goal, the defense gets a touchdown. Right,

547
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Speaker 7: you're capable of that, But that's where I go. We

548
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Speaker 7: don't have to throw the jump ball into triple coverage

549
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Speaker 7: forty yards down the field. We don't always have to

550
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Speaker 7: go for the jugguler. If you're Kevin Stefanski and to me,

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Speaker 7: that is the biggest issue that I worry about with

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Speaker 7: Cleveland as we go forward here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a hard ceiling on that style of play,

554
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Speaker 2: and it might get through this weekend, but it'd be

555
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Speaker 2: hard to imagine at the next weekend. Speaking of this

556
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Speaker 2: matchup with the Texans, c J. Stroud's been an absolute

557
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Speaker 2: revelation this year. But there is no question he is

558
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Speaker 2: better against zone than man and we're going to play

559
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Speaker 2: predominantly man in the game tomorrow. And pressure and any

560
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Speaker 2: quarterback struggles with pressure, but our pressure ought to be

561
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Speaker 2: able to be at his feet a lot. He wasn't

562
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Speaker 2: there in the last game. Chris does what does him

563
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Speaker 2: be the change? And how much of what we do

564
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Speaker 2: well are also matches up what they do well offensively?

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Speaker 2: If that makes sense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it's a tough matchup for them, Bo, it

567
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Speaker 7: really is, right, I mean to me, it's gonna be

568
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Speaker 7: like their defense is going to have to make a

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Speaker 7: few plays, you know, some of those jump balls that

570
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Speaker 7: were up for grabs in the first matchup. If the

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Speaker 7: Texans come up with it, maybe the game's differently that way, right. Shroud,

572
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Speaker 7: of course, is already one of the greatest throwers in

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Speaker 7: football right now. I mean it's incredible, the strength, the accuracy,

574
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Speaker 7: the ability to throw off his back foot. Whatever he

575
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Speaker 7: wants to do, he can do. That's where it's more dangerous.

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Speaker 7: Like you said, it's more of a it's man demand.

577
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Speaker 7: But oh Newsomber Denzel slip at the line of scrimmage

578
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Speaker 7: right and oh no, now Nico Collins is behind him.

579
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Speaker 7: He puts it on the money. It's a fifty yard touchdown.

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Speaker 7: It'll take some of those type of plays, in my opinion,

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Speaker 7: for the Texans to pull off the upset the Texans. Right,

582
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Speaker 7: it's not a lot of speed at wide receiver, especially

583
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Speaker 7: since they lost Hank Dell right their offensive line not playing.

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Speaker 3: Real good right now.

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Speaker 7: Last week they ran the ball more than they should

586
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Speaker 7: have and ran a lot of three step drop and

587
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Speaker 7: keeping the tight end in and keeping two tight ends,

588
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Speaker 7: and because they couldn't protect against the Indianapolis Colts, so

589
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Speaker 7: they played a conservative nature. That doesn't bode well against

590
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Speaker 7: a team that is the best defense in football by far.

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Speaker 7: It just puts pressure on you, you know, at every angle

592
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Speaker 7: and moment of the football game. So you know, he's dangerous.

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Speaker 7: Certainly they're going to be more aggressive. I think and

594
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Speaker 7: more danger throwing the ball down the field. But I

595
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Speaker 7: do think it's going to take that Texans defense and

596
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Speaker 7: make a few plays and Stroud probably to make a

597
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Speaker 7: few miraculous plays to go along with that for them

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Speaker 7: to beat the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: From the Browns perspective, and it feels like you're leaning Browns.

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Speaker 2: Is the way that you would pick this one from

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Speaker 2: the Browns perspective if you could script it, How does

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Speaker 2: this go tomorrow afternoon?

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Speaker 7: That you just like run the ball and give him

604
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Speaker 7: a slow death. If I were the Browns, don't try to,

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Speaker 7: you know, like I said, blow them out in the

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Speaker 7: first quarter and show them who's the boss by throwing

607
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Speaker 7: you know, risky balls up into the air or taking

608
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Speaker 7: too many chances. I think they're clearly the better football

609
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Speaker 7: team on the field. To me, it's like, don't give

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Speaker 7: them the chance to get lucky and pull off this upset,

611
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Speaker 7: you know, the slow and constant pressure. And again, if

612
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Speaker 7: we can just see which I think we're gonna see.

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Speaker 7: You know, it looked like in that Jets game that

614
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Speaker 7: the tackles are finally comfortable in the offense and they

615
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Speaker 7: got them schooled up and they run blocking was a

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Speaker 7: lot better against the New York Jets. That's what I'm

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Speaker 7: hoping for Cleveland too here throughout the playoff stretches, they

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Speaker 7: can lean on the run game a little bit more

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Speaker 7: because I think Joe Flacco throwing forty five times a

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Speaker 7: game again is not the recipe for Cleveland to get.

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Speaker 3: To the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 7: And I would say to that and lean on the

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Speaker 7: conservativism or conservative side of the offensive side of the

624
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Speaker 7: ball there and let your defense continue to set you

625
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Speaker 7: up for winnable situations off that, and I think that'll

626
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Speaker 7: be all good for Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the smartest analysts you'll ever find. You

628
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Speaker 2: can listen to him on the podcast with Gloria on

629
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Speaker 2: Pro Football Talk, on his own podcast as well of

630
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Speaker 2: course on NBC. Chris, before I let you go real quick,

631
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Speaker 2: this is an incredible Super wild Card weekend of all,

632
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Speaker 2: and there's a bunch of great ones. Which is the

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Speaker 2: one you're most looking forward to?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Well, I you know, I mean the elements of

635
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Speaker 7: the Dolphins Chiefs game, right, that's gonna be fun to watch.

636
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Speaker 7: So that's that's a good.

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Speaker 3: One, you know.

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Speaker 7: But I think all in all, the Rams and the

639
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Speaker 7: Lions and the Stafford and the golf situation, right, the

640
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 7: Rams exceeding expectations and what they're doing. You know, the

641
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 7: Lions answered the bell and all those expectations. First home

642
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 7: playoff game, and here they got the guy that you know,

643
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 7: basically carried their organization for ten years straight. Now he's

644
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Speaker 7: coming into town who's and he's won a Super Bowl

645
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Speaker 7: with them. I think that's probably the game I'm most

646
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Speaker 7: excited to see this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Borderline cruel for Lions fans. Right, She's got to deal

648
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 2: with yeah, right, Seriously.

649
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Speaker 7: They're not gonna know what to do. Stafford's gonna throw

650
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Speaker 7: awesome throws and they're gonna want to cheer and go

651
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 7: great throw, but they're gonna be oh no, not against

652
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Speaker 7: our team, do this against somebody else.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Chris. I can't thank you enough for

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Speaker 2: your time and for giving us a little bit of

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Speaker 2: it today. I'll keep giv you away from you at

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Speaker 2: the combine, my friend.

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Speaker 7: All right, boll be good, buddy.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 2: That's Chris Sims of NBC, one of the brightest minds

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Speaker 2: in all of the game, with the breakdown, feeling very

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Speaker 2: good about this Brown's attack and what it ought to

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Speaker 2: be able to do down in Houston tomorrow when they

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Speaker 2: take on the Texans to kick off Super wild Card Weekend.

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Speaker 2: one of the true legends covering the game, John McClain,

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Speaker 2: joining us. John, thank you so much for taking the time.

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Speaker 2: I guess we spent so much time here obviously talking

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Speaker 2: about how improbable this Browns run has been with five

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Speaker 2: different quarterbacks. But I think if you went before the

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Speaker 2: start of the season, the same would have been said

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Speaker 2: of this Texans run. At what point did you think

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Speaker 2: that maybe there was something special here that could lead

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Speaker 2: to them being AFC South Division champions.

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Speaker 8: I never thought they'd be AFC South Division champions. I

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Speaker 8: thought they would lose to Indy Napolis, be wildcard, go

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Speaker 8: on road, and two it would have been now to

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Speaker 8: Buffalo and lose. And when they bait the calls, and

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Speaker 8: the calls said they weren't the best physical condition they'd

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Speaker 8: been in since early in the season. And the Texans

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Speaker 8: are like the Browns. They've had all kinds of injuries,

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Speaker 8: especially in their offensive line, where they've used three left tackles,

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Speaker 8: four left guard, four centers, one right guarden, four right tackles,

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Speaker 8: and they are in that Indianapolis game, they did nine

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Speaker 8: different starters on offense than they had second game of

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Speaker 8: the year that the Browns won thirty one, so I

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Speaker 8: was still surprised they won. They won because CJ's Stroud

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Speaker 8: was terrific and because they running back who had caught

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Speaker 8: six passes all ceiling season Titleer Goodson couldn't catch. They

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Speaker 8: dropped the pass that could have been better by Gardner

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Speaker 8: minshewe and they blew it and it gave Texans the

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Speaker 8: division champion. I started seeing that Stroud was started to

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Speaker 8: think he's worth the second pick after they started oh two,

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Speaker 8: and they went to Jacksonville won by twenty and then

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Speaker 8: they beat Pittsburgh by twenty four, the most the Houston

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Speaker 8: teams beating the Steelers by since nineteen ninety one with

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Speaker 8: the Oilers. So they were two and two. But then

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Speaker 8: they lose at Atlanta on a field goal with no

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Speaker 8: time left, at Carolina on a field goal with no

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Speaker 8: time left. So I think, Okay, they're on a roller

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Speaker 8: coaster and they'll I might be right when I picked

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Speaker 8: them to go six and eleven, but they just surpassed

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Speaker 8: everybody's expectations. Nobody thought they'd be capable of doing what

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Speaker 8: they're doing. You know, as people picked the Browns to

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Speaker 8: win the division because of Doug Watson would bounce back.

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Speaker 8: But everybody at the Texans second worst team in the league, Arizona.

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Speaker 8: Arizona's get the first two picks and they were gonna

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Speaker 8: take Cayleb Williams and Marvin Harrison Junior and Boyd. Those

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Speaker 8: partitions sure didn't come out. And I'm guessing the voting

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Speaker 8: was for the awards this week come out on the

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Speaker 8: NFL Honors Show. I think Stefanski will narrowly beat Demigo

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Speaker 8: Ryans for Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's these these two stories have been incredible and

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Speaker 2: it's important for audience to hear everything that Houston has

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Speaker 2: been through. And you know round here and certainly I'm

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Speaker 2: very familiar with CJ from his time in Columbus, and

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Speaker 2: I just thought he was like one of the coolest customers,

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Speaker 2: Like he was just just very, very level all the

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Speaker 2: time and nothing seemed to bug him. And you've I

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Speaker 2: didn't know if it would transition this quickly to the NFL,

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Speaker 2: but it has. And this has been John really one

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Speaker 2: of the great seasons of rookie quarterbacks ever had.

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Speaker 8: It is and when he and will Anderson had their

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Speaker 8: initial news conference with us the day after the draft.

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Speaker 8: When they finished talking media, we kind of looked at

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Speaker 8: each other like, wow, that's refreshing and uh. And then

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Speaker 8: the local chapter, the Pro Football Writers of America, our

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Speaker 8: good guy Ward went to Strout and he's a rookie.

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Speaker 8: I ever see that. And I was surprised when the

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Speaker 8: voting was tabulated because he only talks twice a week

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Speaker 8: Wednesdays after the game. But he's always charming, pleasant, not

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Speaker 8: in a hurry, very insightful, speak from the heart, and

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Speaker 8: we love talking to the kid. But cool's great way

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Speaker 8: to describe him. I tell people he reminds me of

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Speaker 8: Warren Moon. Warren was a twenty eight year old rookie

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Speaker 8: in nineteen eighty four, and he threw a perfect pass.

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Speaker 8: And Strout throws a beautiful ball just like Moon. And

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Speaker 8: his personalities just like Moon. Very very cool, us old

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Speaker 8: guys say, and the young people go very chilly. That's

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Speaker 8: what I've heard.

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Speaker 2: That's what I hear too, John. My kids talk like that.

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Speaker 2: I try to pick up what I can from my friend.

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Speaker 2: You know that is the praise coming from you comparing

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Speaker 2: him to Warren Moon. I know you would not do

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Speaker 2: that lightly. I know that you choose words carefully, so

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Speaker 2: to hear that is incredible out of this is a

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Speaker 2: work in progress there obviously though, and they are ahead

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Speaker 2: of schedule when you think about the struggles, and it's

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Speaker 2: not much when it comes to struggles from CJ. But obviously,

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Speaker 2: like with any young quarterback, it's with pressure and sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's against man defense. Now, unfortunately, from the Houston pre

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Speaker 2: side of that, those are two things that we're going

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Speaker 2: to do a lot of tomorrow. So what will the

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Speaker 2: game plan from the Houston perspective be to protect him

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Speaker 2: tomorrow and try to give enough time for guys to

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Speaker 2: get separation and make plays downfield.

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Speaker 8: Well, it starts on defense. They got to play a

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Speaker 8: whole lot better in coverage than they did in that

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Speaker 8: first game, and right from the get go when Flaco

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Speaker 8: threw it for fifty three yards to Cooper, and that

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Speaker 8: kind of caught everybody off guard. And then they didn't

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Speaker 8: let up till they were pulled and they went back in

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Speaker 8: because Davis Mills had scored a couple of touchdowns at

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Speaker 8: garbage time, and so they can't let the Browns get

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Speaker 8: a big lead early because then they have to abandon

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Speaker 8: the run again. And in that first game, you know,

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Speaker 8: the Texans totally shut down the Browns run one point

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Speaker 8: eighty carry, but the Texans only ran sixteen times. You

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Speaker 8: can't win running sixteen times and need more ballance. So

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Speaker 8: Bobby Slowick, their offensive coordinators in his first year as

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Speaker 8: coordinator and play caller, and a lot of teams are

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Speaker 8: pursuing him interviews with him for head coaching job. He's

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Speaker 8: going to run it. They're not very good at running.

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Speaker 8: Their twenty second they when they've rushed for one hundred

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Speaker 8: yards of six and one, they're three and zero. Devin

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Speaker 8: Singletary rushes for one hundred yards, and as you guys know,

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Speaker 8: the only way you can beat the Browns is you

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Speaker 8: got to be able to run the ball. And the

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Speaker 8: last thing you want to do is fall way behind

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Speaker 8: because Flacco's going crazy again. And so I think they'll

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Speaker 8: try to have a lot of balance, do everything they

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Speaker 8: can to keep Flacco on the bench. They'll run in

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Speaker 8: the rounds. They've been doing that because they just can't

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Speaker 8: get a lot of push against with the run. With

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Speaker 8: all the linemen they've been forced to play all season.

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Speaker 8: Now they're this current group is relatively healthy still, they

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Speaker 8: just haven't been very good. They haven't made a good

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Speaker 8: adjustment to the zone scheme, especially Damian Pears, their starter.

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Speaker 8: He's been relegated to a kickoff for Turner because he

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00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 8: just hasn't picked it up. But they will try to run,

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Speaker 8: and if the game is closed, they'll run a lot.

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Speaker 8: And I think we'll triud and run. You guys watched

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00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 8: him at Ohio State. I thought it was ridiculous when

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Speaker 8: people were talking about his lack of mobility because he

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Speaker 8: didn't run much at Ohio State. And I went through

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Speaker 8: everything and saw he ran for seventy something yards against Northwestern.

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Speaker 8: He ran twelve times against Georgia. So he told us

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Speaker 8: that the combine, why would I run when I got

815
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Speaker 8: great receivers running open. I never hear the end of

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Speaker 8: it if I didn't get him the ball. And so

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Speaker 8: here he ran three times for twenty yards again instat calls,

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Speaker 8: and two of them are first down, So there's a

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00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 8: lot of time he has an open field, but he'll

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Speaker 8: throw the ball. And I think in a game like this,

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Speaker 8: it's you know, you've got to do everything. I think

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Speaker 8: we might see him run three or five times.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, and he did that in the

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Speaker 2: Georgia game. He was spectacular in the Georgia game last

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Speaker 2: year in the college football semi final. And I think

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I don't think the moment will be

827
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Speaker 2: too big. It's I do think they are obviously very

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Speaker 2: focused Nico Collins and and some of that is out

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Speaker 2: of necessity you mentioned to take Dell injury and some

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Speaker 2: of the other things. The Browns, my hunch, John are

831
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Speaker 2: going to do something like they did to Garrett Wilson,

832
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Speaker 2: which is to put Ronnie Hickin kind of over top

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Speaker 2: wherever Nico Collins goes. If that is the case and

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Speaker 2: they are able to limit him and the texanser have success,

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Speaker 2: who do you point to in their from their weaponry,

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Speaker 2: who they can maybe lean on a little bit if

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Speaker 2: Collins is handcuffed a little they don't have.

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Speaker 8: To do anything they did and do on Christmas when

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Speaker 8: they limited him to four catches eighteen of all. And

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Speaker 8: now in the last two games, let's say I've got

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Speaker 8: to stats somewhere he's at He's at eighty and then

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Speaker 8: one ninety five. So the Browns did a better job

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Speaker 8: than anybody this season of containing Nico Collins and against

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Speaker 8: the Colts. He didn't have his second, third or fourth

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Speaker 8: receivers and John Matshew's third who overcame leukemia. He's so

846
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 8: far been a better blocker than receiver, and Rukie Xavier

847
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Speaker 8: Hutchinson has been a better runner on reversus and he

848
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Speaker 8: has been a receivers. They usualize Dalton Schultz a lot.

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Speaker 8: Dalton Schultz makes some big catches. Keexan's got a lot

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Speaker 8: of guys on one year contracts and they got a

851
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 8: chance to make money. So they are really playing hard,

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00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 8: playing well because they can hear the cash register ringing,

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00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 8: and so Collins says, they got to do whatever they

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00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 8: can to get him open. You know, put him in

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Speaker 8: the backfield, let him go in motion, let him start

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Speaker 8: off in the backfield, line him up on both sides,

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Speaker 8: put him in the slot. That's the way they used

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Speaker 8: to have to do. Andre Johnson and DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 2: You know, let's slip it to the other side. John

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Speaker 2: talking to the great John McClain, senior sports columnist, sports

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Speaker 2: Radio six to ten dot com, one of the authorities

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Speaker 2: in the NFL and certainly the authority on Houston NFL football.

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Speaker 2: Let's loop at the other sid Deviko Ryans made his Hey,

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Speaker 2: he's defensive mastermind.

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Speaker 4: That's the operation.

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Speaker 2: And Joe Flacco had his way in two hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty five for Mamari Cooper in that game. What adjustments

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Speaker 2: do you think you will see from the Texans defense?

869
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: Obviously getting healthy is a big part of it. Your

870
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: two defensive ends look like they're both back, right, John.

871
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 8: Well, I believe it when I see it on Jonathan Grenard. Okay,

872
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 8: he's been out with his sprayinged ankle. Will Anderson and

873
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 8: close to be and he plays, but he's not close

874
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 8: to being ready to play. But they still need him

875
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Speaker 8: on the field now. Derek Barnett in four starts cord

876
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Speaker 8: to Pro Football Focus has tied for the second highest

877
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Speaker 8: grade on edge rusher behind Miles Garrett. He is here's

878
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 8: another guy cut by the Eagles, former number one pig.

879
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 8: Didn't just with it. He goes and now he's tearing

880
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 8: it up. He was really good against the Browns. One

881
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 8: of the few defensive players I had who was and

882
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 8: Barnett is one hundred percent now. In that first game,

883
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 8: they didn't sack Flacoh. They knocked him down eight times,

884
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Speaker 8: including three by Barnett. But if Grenard and Anderson are

885
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 8: good enough to be on the field no matter how

886
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 8: limited they are. It puts pressure on gron Christian and

887
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 8: James Hudson, and those guys did a great job in

888
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 8: that first game. Plus we get Steve Flacco. Remember one

889
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Speaker 8: time he's plussed out of the pocket and he's running

890
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 8: lap and he's sowing a lot of mobuilding. Then he

891
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 8: pulled up through the ball for another completion. So they've

892
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 8: got to get more pressure on him. They've got to

893
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Speaker 8: disrupt him. I don't know if they can. And it's

894
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 8: not their corners that are usually the problems. It's the safeties.

895
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 8: Of their top four safeties they had early in the season,

896
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Speaker 8: three are gone on I are and won Jalen Petrie.

897
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Speaker 8: He's playing with three guys they've done off the street,

898
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Speaker 8: and they struggle with coverage, especially down the field.

899
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to ask you about Demiko. Obviously covered

900
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: him as a player, and it was a pretty quick search.

901
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 2: It seemed like for him. Was there were there traits

902
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: he had as a player, John that led you to

903
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 2: believe that this would be an end game for him.

904
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Speaker 8: I'll tell you all the story. The first game on

905
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Speaker 8: Amazon was the preseason game last season, and it was

906
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Speaker 8: the Texans here and because Kyle Shanahan and Demko and

907
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 8: so many of the guys on that staff were here

908
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 8: with the Texans under gear at Kubiak, I went over

909
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 8: before the game with Miko came off the field and

910
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 8: I had done a column on him the year before

911
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 8: when the Texans played out there, and I knew he

912
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 8: wanted to be a head coach, and I knew he

913
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 8: was going to be a head coach, but I never

914
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 8: had any idea when it would be. So he had

915
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 8: interviewed his first after his first year as a coordinator

916
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 8: and then went back to Kyle Santan said you know,

917
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 8: I need another year and that worked perfectly. So I

918
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 8: went up to Lames came off the field and we

919
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 8: shook hands and I said, let me be the first

920
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Speaker 8: person to congratulate you and being a head coach, and

921
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 8: he started laughing. He said, oh, don't go there. And

922
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 8: I had an idefb air course, and so everybody he

923
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 8: always had. He had the tendencies of head coaches. He

924
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 8: paid close attention to Gary Kubiak when he was here,

925
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 8: Wade Phillips when Wade was a defensive coordinator in his

926
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 8: last year, but he never thought at the time, I

927
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 8: want to be a coach. He was out of football

928
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 8: after a ten year career back in Houston where his

929
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Speaker 8: wife grew up, and they were here and he coached,

930
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 8: went back home, coached a little with his high school

931
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 8: team in Alabama, and then he came back here and

932
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 8: he's working out one day and Robert Salid was there

933
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 8: six years told him, said what do you do And

934
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 8: he said, I'm trying to figure out what I want

935
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 8: to do. I just coached a little in high school defense.

936
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Speaker 8: He said, would you like to be part of our staff?

937
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 8: This was twenty seventeen. He goes, well, you know, maybe,

938
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 8: so Salik got another coach that they worked on him

939
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 8: than Kylesony and called him to the rest his history

940
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 8: and once he got here, I went out his speeches.

941
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 8: His inspiration is like he was when he was their

942
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 8: middle linebacker. You know, he's just cut out to be

943
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 8: a coach, and players love it.

944
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: It's been one of the great stories both these teams.

945
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 2: Quite honestly, it's a shame one of them is going

946
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 2: to have to lose John. How do you see this

947
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: one going tomorrow?

948
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 8: I beg the Browns twenty four to twenty. I think

949
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 8: that when you have the number one day defense and

950
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 8: you have a quarterback over the course of his career,

951
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 8: if you look at it closely, Flaco has been better

952
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 8: in the playoffs than regular season. He's certainly well rested,

953
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 8: and it's such a great story, and I think he's

954
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 8: going to play well in the playoffs just like he

955
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 8: always has going back to his first season. They'd love

956
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,479
Speaker 8: for Stroud. In fact, I wrote a column on this

957
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 8: this week about Stroud would love to have a rookie

958
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 8: playoff like experience like Flacca two victories, losing the AFC

959
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 8: Championship game at Pittsburgh and Stroud was seven men and

960
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 8: when he won the Super Bowl, Stroud was twelve. So

961
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 8: it could be kind of a changing of the guard.

962
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 8: But I don't think it's going to happen. I think

963
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 8: the Browns, between the defense and Flacco, they're gonna win

964
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 8: and advance and there'll be a great story next week

965
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 8: in Baltimore. You know, Baltimore is already talking about that game.

966
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 8: Black goes oncoming.

967
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 2: It'll be crazy. I'll get you real quick before you

968
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 2: get before he let you go, John, I can't think

969
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 2: you know for your time what's the environment like down there?

970
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 2: What's the excitement like for this one?

971
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Speaker 4: Is it?

972
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 2: Is it Texans Fever?

973
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 8: People are pumped because the Astros have done so little

974
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 8: in the offseason. They won't spend money. Feels like a

975
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 8: football down again. And there's always a lot of Browns

976
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 8: fans here. I was surprised and weren't more of Christmas Eve,

977
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 8: but I guess they stayed at home for Christmas. Plus

978
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 8: there's just a lot of Browns fans in this area.

979
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 8: He came in the eighties and so I think there'll

980
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 8: be a lot of Browns fans. But the Houston fans

981
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 8: they are there. You guys are wacko for Flaco and

982
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 8: they're proud for Stroud And it'll be a great crowd

983
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 8: and a lot of fun. And I can't imagine it's

984
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 8: gonna be as bad as it was the first game

985
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 8: when the Browns were up thirty six to seven.

986
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: No, it's gonna be a good one. We thank you

987
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 2: so much for your time, sir, as always greatly appreciate it.

988
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 8: Pot pleaser. Thank you guys for grabbing me on as

989
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 8: all ways.

990
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 2: That's the great John McLean. He's a senior sports columns

991
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 2: at Sports Radio six ' ten dot com down in Houston,

992
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 2: the Texans flag Ship channel down there. Just to reset

993
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 2: a couple of the big things. Denzel Ward appears to

994
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: be in according to his social media. He tweeted out

995
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: an image of him running out onto the field. That

996
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: typically means you can draw the conclusions that he would

997
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 2: be in. Pierre Strong is going to be out. Jonathan

998
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 2: Kelly elevated from the practice squad, so that will affect

999
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: the return game for the Browns. Course Strong was your

1000
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: kick recurner, so proche well, probably Nathan said that off

1001
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: the top of the show, probably be the kick return

1002
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 2: man there. It looks like one Thorn Hill Ronnie Hickman

1003
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 2: are going to be the pair at safety. And then

1004
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 2: the other big news of the day, the All Pro

1005
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 2: teams were released. Obviously tremendous disappointment in Joel Botonio not

1006
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: making one of those teams, Jeremiah Usa Coramona not making

1007
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 2: one of those teams, and obviously Dustin Hopkins not making

1008
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 2: one of those teams. Almost criminal on that side of things.

1009
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 2: But Miles Garrett was a first team All Pro for

1010
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: the third time in his career and the fifth time

1011
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 2: as an All Pro. First or second team. And if

1012
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 2: you listen to the show regular you know when you

1013
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 2: stack the all pros. That is when you stack the

1014
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 2: ability to put on a gold jacket. Second out of

1015
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 2: the program. Coming up next Zego's one on one with

1016
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 2: a Marii Cooper. He joins us back. Coming up next

1017
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 2: with the Keys to Victory. You have your score, so

1018
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 2: much to look forward to keep it locked right here

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Speaker 2: a fifty ESPN Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back hour two Cleveland Brown's Daily on a

1027
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Speaker 2: football Friday, preparing you for Sunday Saturday's game rather four

1028
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Speaker 2: thirty kick between the Browns and Texans on Super Wild

1029
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Speaker 2: Card weekend. Before we get to all of that, before

1030
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Speaker 2: We had some injury stuff that we've been talking about

1037
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Speaker 2: in the first hour of the program. I did see

1038
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 2: yesterday that Houston is officially finally a sellout. They announced

1039
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: that on Tuesday that they would have a sellout for

1040
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 2: that game down there. I do anticipate that there will

1041
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 2: be a healthy amount of orange and brown in the

1042
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 2: game tomorrow down in Houston.

1043
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1044
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people in my orbit who

1045
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 4: are going to this game, have bought tickets, are flying

1046
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 4: in from various parts of the country to go see

1047
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns take on the Houston Texans. Browns fans

1048
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 4: travel very well. This is a playoff game that they

1049
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 4: can go to. Yeah, easy, and you weren't able to

1050
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 4: go in twenty twenty. You were not able to go

1051
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh, So I think that, Yeah, I think you're

1052
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 4: going to see a lot of people and obviously hopefully

1053
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 4: it is the first of many, because this is a

1054
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 4: very special team and I think it's a special opportunity

1055
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 4: down there in Houston against the Texans to get to

1056
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 4: that second round and get rolling. Let's go.

1057
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were talking a little bit yesterday. We did

1058
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 2: the one thought through the NFL Wildcard games and NFL

1059
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,240
Speaker 2: Super Wildcard weekend. It's really an incredible display of games

1060
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 2: all week and long.

1061
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 5: There's fun matchups.

1062
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 2: We'll pick it here in a little bit in the scores,

1063
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: but for us to kick it off in style in

1064
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 2: a game that it's got a lot of storylines to

1065
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 2: this one that we've been talking about all weekend long.

1066
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 2: And that's where we head now as we get into

1067
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 2: the keys to this game, the keys to victory for

1068
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: your Cleveland Browns on Saturday tomorrow down in Houston, and

1069
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 2: for the details on that, we go to Duczi.

1070
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 4: Well, first and foremost, you've got to take care of

1071
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 4: the football. That's number one, right, Let's take care of

1072
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 4: the football. We went through it, I think on Wednesday shows.

1073
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: Three times that we won it, yep. It was eleven

1074
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: times that we lost it, yep, and three times we

1075
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 2: tied it yep. And somehow we're eleven.

1076
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 4: And six, not typically how it works out.

1077
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Speaker 2: No, No, So.

1078
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Speaker 4: We can clean that up that will be a big

1079
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 4: thing because the Texans, believe it or not, only had

1080
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 4: fourteen giveaways on the season. That was the lowest in

1081
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 4: the National Football League, two of which came against us,

1082
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 4: by the way two case Keenum interceptions. We gave it

1083
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 4: away thirty seven times. Geez thirty. We turned the ball

1084
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,959
Speaker 4: over twenty three more times than the Texans this year.

1085
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 4: Now the Texans they had twenty four takeaways. We had

1086
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 4: twenty eight takeaways. Take care of the football, I think

1087
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 4: that is just that is the most important thing you

1088
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 4: can do because when you're the better team, turnovers, especially

1089
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 4: ill time turnovers, those get you number two. Clean up

1090
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 4: the special teams. That was an issue the last time

1091
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 4: we were in this building. Gave them all that was

1092
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 4: that all went to hell right. Also, you had to

1093
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 4: get stars back and it got Amari Cooper the record.

1094
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 4: But you gave up a kick return touchdown. You allowed

1095
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 4: an onside kick to be recovered. You can do neither

1096
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 4: of those things in this game. If it comes down

1097
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 4: an onsidekick situation, you must recover it. Do not allow

1098
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 4: Damian Pierce to get to the house. And that's something

1099
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to cover these kicks because Riley Patterson

1100
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 4: doesn't just put the ball through the end zone like

1101
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 4: Dustin Hopkins kin and so that's something to keep an

1102
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 4: eye on there. When they have the ball, you have

1103
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 4: got to pressure CJ. Stroud.

1104
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 7: C J.

1105
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 4: Stroud has the biggest, one of the biggest disparities in

1106
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 4: the league YEP in Pro Football Focus grade in quarterback

1107
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 4: rating and completion percentage, in yards per attempt, all of

1108
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 4: it under pressure versus a clean pocket. It is imperative

1109
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 4: that the Browns get pressure. Now, one thing that does

1110
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 4: give a nice advantage of the Browns. We talked about

1111
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 4: it kind of stylistically. Teams that play a lot of

1112
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 4: man have had success against c J. Strout. Now, hopefully

1113
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 4: we'll have Denzel Ward. I feel like we probably won't

1114
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 4: know that definitively until tomorrow, but hopefully that is the

1115
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 4: way it's going. We've had reports that you know he

1116
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 4: is okay. Certainly knock on wood, hope that's the case. CJ.

1117
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 4: Stroud led the NFL in QBR versus zone this season.

1118
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 4: He was twenty seventh in the NFL against man. He

1119
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: has struggled against man. Part of it's because I imagine

1120
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 4: who he's throwing to. They don't have a lot of separators,

1121
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 4: and really it's kind of a one man band there

1122
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 4: with Nico Collins and then the tight end Dalton Schultz.

1123
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 4: So I expect to see the Browns and man, I

1124
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 4: think stylistically, as we said, this one matches up pretty

1125
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 4: well to what the Browns do defensively, but I think

1126
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 4: getting that pressure is going to be so important if

1127
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 4: they hope to go out and stop CJ. Stroud or

1128
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 4: at least limit him, and the other part of it

1129
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 4: to be given extra attention to Nicocollins eighty catches, twelve

1130
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety seven yards, sixteen point two a catch,

1131
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 4: eight touchdowns, five one hundred yard games. Seven of his

1132
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 4: eight touchdowns came at home this year. Yeah, he is

1133
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 4: a dynamic wide receiver. The Browns need to give him

1134
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,959
Speaker 4: some attention. Then when we have the ball, you talked

1135
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 4: about taking care of the foot ball, but we've got

1136
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 4: to be a little more effective running it. Last time,

1137
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 4: fifty four yards on one point eight yards per carry,

1138
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 4: we were just six of sixteen on third down. It

1139
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 4: wasn't necessarily our best overall game. Now we were four

1140
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 4: of six on fourth down. Remember that is because we

1141
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 4: didn't have a kicker for the majority that game, so

1142
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 4: we went on some fourth downs there. But it was

1143
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 4: a big Flacoh game, Big Amari Cooper game. Chief got

1144
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 4: in the end zone as well. But we've got to

1145
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 4: run the ball a little bit better. I think we've

1146
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 4: got to have some balance, and I think that is

1147
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 4: I think balance is always an important thing.

1148
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 2: Go back to your conversation with the comments, you made

1149
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 2: your third point on the defense and with Stroud, that

1150
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 2: was that was the hiccup with him at Ohio State

1151
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 2: and anytime you heard anybody say, well, what are you

1152
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 2: going to do with Stroud when he was Ohio States?

1153
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 2: Get him off his spot and so if you're at

1154
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: his feet, he gets uncomfortable. It was one of the

1155
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 2: knocks on him in the draft process. They've done a

1156
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:48,959
Speaker 2: pretty damn good job protected him for much of the year.

1157
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 2: But as you're articulating, you're talking about him against man

1158
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 2: versus his own It is one of those things that

1159
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 2: what they do best. We have the antidote for Yes,

1160
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: we are a team that gets after the quarterback. We

1161
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 2: have the best pass rusher and football we are elite

1162
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 2: at the corner position, and not only just the top three,

1163
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 2: but in the depth of that position, and they don't

1164
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 2: have the type of weapons outside of Collins that scare you.

1165
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 2: So that's a big part of it, and one thing

1166
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 2: we've harped on all week long, and it goes back

1167
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 2: to your comment about Nico Collins and being able to

1168
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: control him a little bit. We saw that as you

1169
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 2: articulated earlier this week in the game against the Jets,

1170
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 2: with Garrett Wilson and Ronnie Hickman, who has seen CJ.

1171
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 2: Stroud more than anyone, I promise you they were out

1172
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 2: o Highest State together. He's probably had more snaps against

1173
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: c J. Stroud than anybody on the planet, and the

1174
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 2: same would be true of CJ. The inverse would be true,

1175
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 2: where CJ would know Ronnie pretty well as well. But

1176
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 2: there's some tendency stuff that maybe couldn't get picked up

1177
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 2: on a little bit there, and that plan against Garrett

1178
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 2: is a plan that ought to work against Houston as well,

1179
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 2: because it's similar type of stuff that you're working on now.

1180
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 2: To be fair, you're going up against a much more

1181
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 2: accomplished quarterback than you were with the Jets, but from

1182
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 2: a talent position, I would also say Garrett is more

1183
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 2: talented than Nico, althoughay Nico a lot. So that's that's

1184
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 2: why you got to feel pretty good as a Browns

1185
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: fan in terms of that that offense defense matchup.

1186
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 4: What we do well is stop the things that the

1187
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 4: Texans do well. And to just give some context to

1188
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,879
Speaker 4: the numbers, kept clean sixty nine percent completions nine point

1189
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 4: two yards in attempt, twenty touchdowns under pressure fifty two

1190
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 4: percent completion six yard and attempt three touchdowns, rating clean

1191
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 4: one hundred and eleven, rating pressure seventy seven. So you're

1192
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 4: talking about a thirty four point dropture in his quarterback rating.

1193
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 4: That is a very, very big one. Now, eliminating chunk

1194
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 4: plays will be important. He's been he's one of the

1195
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 4: best deep ball throwers in the NFL. Fifty six percent

1196
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 4: completions almost twenty yards in attempt, eight it touchdowns, no picks,

1197
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 4: only one turnover worthy play, quarterback rating of one to

1198
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 4: forty point five on passes of more than twenty yards

1199
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 4: in the air. We've got to eliminate those chunks in

1200
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 4: this one because, as I said, when you can get

1201
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 4: him under pressure, and that'll be stopping the run on

1202
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 4: early downs, get him into some third and longs, you

1203
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 4: gotta be ready for the play action game. They're very

1204
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 4: effective doing that. But his turnover worthy plays from a

1205
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 4: clean pocket. He had six on the season one point

1206
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 4: six percent of his dropbacks under pressure, eleven of them

1207
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 4: five point two percent of his drop backs. So if

1208
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 4: you get him under pressure, he will give you some

1209
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 4: opportunities potentially to take the football away. Doesn't do it

1210
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 4: very often, but that's going to be one of the

1211
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 4: keys in this game, is getting that pressure, making him uncomfortable,

1212
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 4: and then when he does happen to give you an

1213
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 4: opportunity to ball taking advantage of it.

1214
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 2: You're mentioning the our our struggles in the run game

1215
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: with them down there, How much of that is real?

1216
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 2: It was so easy to throw it, and then by

1217
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 2: the time it was you.

1218
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 4: Know, it was real. Eight yards of carry, no, no,

1219
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 4: for sure run.

1220
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 2: The game was in well, well in hand for so

1221
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 2: much of it, and it came so easy in the pass. Yeah,

1222
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 2: you know, how much of it towards the end was

1223
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 2: let's just try and get out of here. We had

1224
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 2: so many injuries. You mentioned the injuries at kicker and punter,

1225
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,399
Speaker 2: like you're going forward on fourth down all the time.

1226
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 2: It just it was a very strange game. Yeah, that's unacceptable.

1227
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to run it more, sure,

1228
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 2: but it was a that was a weird game down there.

1229
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 4: Even if we can just get to the point or

1230
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 4: were running for one hundred yards in the game and

1231
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 4: being around four yards of carry, I think we'll be

1232
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 4: just fine. And now if you can pop one, that

1233
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 4: would be enormous. But I think things you're most concerned

1234
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 4: about are making sure you don't have those negative runs,

1235
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 4: that you're having positive gains on every play that you

1236
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 4: and then that you take care of the football. And

1237
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 4: you know, knock on wood cream Hunt's done a great

1238
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 4: job taking care of the football. Jerome Ford has not

1239
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 4: had an issue since Week one. That was his only

1240
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 4: fumble of the whole year was week won at home

1241
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 4: against Cincinnati Bengals. So that is something you want to

1242
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,479
Speaker 4: focus on. And definitely kind of in the ground game,

1243
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 4: if you hit a chunk, that's great, but just positive momentum.

1244
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:39,280
Speaker 4: Don't put yourself behind the sticks. Because with Anderson and Grenard,

1245
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 4: the biggest question mark on our offensive line is without

1246
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 4: without question is our tackles, sure, and so their ability

1247
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 4: to get to the quarterback and perhaps make a game

1248
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 4: changing type play. That's what we have to prevent.

1249
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: Your Friday forecasters in by Carrier Carrier turned to the experts.

1250
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 2: It's in a dome, so it'd be great.

1251
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 4: It's gonna be perfect.

1252
00:56:58,920 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1253
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 2: And if you compare this for all of the football

1254
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 2: and the elements, people, compare the game that you're gonna

1255
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 2: get between us and Houston where you are not worried

1256
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 2: about the elements at all, versus the game that will

1257
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 2: take place in Buffalo, the game that's going to take

1258
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 2: place in Kansas City where the elements are gonna wrek

1259
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 2: havoc on the type of play that you're going to

1260
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 2: see in those games. So I love the fact that

1261
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 2: this one's in a dome and you're gonna get to

1262
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 2: see the very best of a very level, even playing

1263
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: field for both teams.

1264
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 4: I mean, there is stuff that I saw yesterday from

1265
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 4: coming out of Pittsburgh. This is from yesterday that sources

1266
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 4: are telling local hosts in Pittsburgh and Buffalo that the Steelers'

1267
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 4: bills could be moved to Cleveland if Lake effect weather

1268
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 4: in a state of emergency is declared in western New

1269
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 4: York on Sunday. Brown State officials have been told to

1270
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 4: quote unquote be ready, good lord, dome.

1271
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: Dom it baby, and they greenlit a new stadium there

1272
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: and it's not not a dome, not domed.

1273
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 4: Don't they remember having to go to Detroit.

1274
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah they've done this. Yeah, they've done it.

1275
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 5: Ragged us into it, they did it. They did They

1276
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 5: absolutely did it.

1277
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 4: Give me good to see it.

1278
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 2: So you see it all right? So last week, the

1279
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 2: over unders did not count, the over nunbers did not count.

1280
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 2: We agree to that.

1281
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:13,919
Speaker 5: I would have won. You did win.

1282
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,919
Speaker 2: You would have won, you would have won by one.

1283
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 2: And and had they had they counted, had it counted

1284
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 2: last week, we would be staring down the barrel of

1285
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 2: an even playing field heading into the playoff game this week. Course,

1286
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 2: but we're not because we agreed that that.

1287
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 4: And I also had fun with it. I went pro

1288
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 4: Browns on literally every single thing that I could.

1289
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 2: Other than chase chase, chase you targets.

1290
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 4: Because I thought we were gonna be smoking them. Yeah,

1291
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 4: And and that was it. So Gibby went three and two,

1292
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 4: you went two and three, didn't count.

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Speaker 5: Throw it out.

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Speaker 2: You're up one as we head into that's right, Super

1295
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 2: wild Card weekend in a matchup in Houston against the Texans.

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Speaker 2: All right, gentlemen, Uh, that is the backdrop of it.

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Speaker 2: And here we go, and we are going to start,

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Speaker 2: uh with our quarterback Joe Flacco, who lit them up

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00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: the last time and is a consistent participant in the

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 2: over three hundred yard club. He threw for three sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: We are looking for passing yards for Joe Flacco in

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00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 2: this Game's a girl. We will start with you. You

1303
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 2: are leading, therefore you will go first in this and

1304
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 2: we are looking for two hundred and seventy five point

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00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 2: five yards from Joe Flacco.

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00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 4: It's been over two hundred and fifteen every game. He's

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 4: been over three hundred and four straight games. This is

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00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 4: If there's one weakness to the Sexans team, it is

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00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 4: their pass defense. That's where they have struggled. Give me

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00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco. I'm wacko for Flacco. I think he keeps

1311
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 4: it rolling. I do think we'll run it a little

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00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 4: more effectively. So I'm not looking for three hundred and

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00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 4: sixty five yards, but I'm looking for two eighty No problem,

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00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 4: No problem?

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Speaker 6: What is that? O?

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00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 4: Are there secrets?

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00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 4: I mean I just so people know.

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00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 2: You imagine if I'm coming to give us help.

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00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 4: A piece of paper was sent notes. I feel like

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00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 4: that should be disclosed.

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00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 2: Well, it's behind the scenes, behind the scenes. This is

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00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: serious because you know you go over which was safe?

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01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 2: Now the last time that to be fair, and you've

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01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: learned from your lesson because the last time that you

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01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:08,959
Speaker 2: went under on a flaco it.

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Speaker 4: Was over over and a half.

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01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 2: It was over and half, so over.

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01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 4: Well, that was the team that hadn't allowed a three

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01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 4: hundred yard pass un thirty three straight games and no problem.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that there is a number before we

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01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 2: get Gibby's comment on this, do you think there is

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01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 2: a number that is is there? I guess this? Are

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01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 2: there multiple routes for us to win the game or

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01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 2: does Flacco have to be prolific?

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01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 4: Multiple routes? I really think if our defense turns in

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01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 4: a performance that they are capable of, we could suffocate

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01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 4: this offense. And that's no knock the seat to show

1339
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 4: they have got one receiver, they don't have a great

1340
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 4: offensive line, and we can cover and we can rush

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01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 4: the quarterback. I mean we can I think suffocate this

1342
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 4: offense give a two seventy five point five over over

1343
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 4: as well.

1344
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 5: I'm not it's not I think I wouldn't be doing you.

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01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 4: Got to do it right, I told him earlier. I said,

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01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 4: I'm gonna play a little straight. But at the same point,

1347
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 4: like I got.

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01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 5: I would, I would be doing a disservice to myself

1349
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 5: by going under. You would, given how you performed.

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01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 4: That could have ended the whole thing. You went under

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01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 4: right there. It could have been playing the parade. That's

1352
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 4: just stupid.

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01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, all right, Next over under, Amari Cooper, give

1354
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 9: over or under receiving yards versus Nico Collins.

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01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 5: Amrio had two.

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01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 2: Sixty five in the previous game. Nico Collins nearly eighteen

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01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 2: in the previous game.

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Speaker 5: I feel like it's Nico. I'm gonna go Nico, You're

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01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 5: gonna go under. I feel like Houston's gonna do whatever

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01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 5: they have to do to take Ioper out, and that

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01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 5: leaves a number of other players open to make big plays.

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01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 5: Maybe a little Elijah Moore, a little Nadjoku.

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01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 4: Four times in the history of the National Football League,

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Speaker 4: this being the fourth YEP has a receiver who went

1365
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 4: for more than two hundred and fIF sixty yards in

1366
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 4: the regular season two hundred fifty yards I'm sorry in

1367
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 4: the regular season, and then played that same team in

1368
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 4: the playoffs that year nineteen eighty nine, John Taylor of

1369
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 4: the San Francisco forty nine ers, he had two hundred

1370
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 4: and eighty six against the Rams in their playoff meeting

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01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 4: forty five Tyreek killed twenty twenty against the Buccaneers two

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01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty nine yards, and the Super Bowl loss

1373
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 4: for the Chiefs he had seventy three. Jamar Chase twenty

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01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 4: twenty one against the Chiefs in the regular season had

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01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty six yards. I don't remember that game.

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Speaker 4: That's why wo either. In the playoffs he had fifty four.

1377
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 4: Actually it was a late it was late in the year,

1378
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 4: and them winning knocked us out of the postseason like

1379
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 4: ended our chances on a Saturday, I remember, and they like, oh, yeah,

1380
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 4: we were thirty.

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01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were busting to the game ended as we arrived.

1382
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 4: Yeahsper And then the fourth obviously is Amari Cooper. So

1383
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 4: nobody who went for over two fifty has gone for

1384
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 4: more than seventy five in that next game. Therefore, I also.

1385
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 5: Happen to think he's going to stonewall me that.

1386
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 4: The Cleveland Browns game plan should be focused entirely entirely

1387
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 4: on stopping Nico Collins, and I believe they'll be able

1388
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 4: to do that. And thus, oh baby, I take Amari

1389
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 4: Cooper over.

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01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 2: There's where it could be right, There could all be

1391
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 2: depended right there.

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01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 5: Next except we play next week.

1393
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 2: Then well that what's I'm saying? These are all critical?

1394
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 2: All right? We're looking for c J. Stroud passing yards

1395
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,439
Speaker 2: and so going to mister Segura on this one first,

1396
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 2: and the number we're looking for is an over under

1397
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 2: two seventy three point five.

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01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 9: Under, well under and easy under for same.

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Speaker 2: It's right at his on season numbers to seventy two ish?

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01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 4: Is that what he's done against defenses of our caliber.

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01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: That's true. It's been a big back from that point.

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01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 2: But there could be some you know, down big chasing,

1403
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:05,919
Speaker 2: spin it around stuff that could happen.

1404
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 4: It would be wonderful, we would see all.

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01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 2: Right, next over under zacks, interceptions and fumbles. Give this

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01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 2: one is yours. The number we are looking for is

1407
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 2: three and a half.

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01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 5: They don't if I recall correctly, they don't turn the

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01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 5: ball over a lot.

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01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 7: But.

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01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 4: You can get he gets sacked about two and a

1412
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 4: half times a game.

1413
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going over same. The defense needs to have

1414
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 5: a feast. The defense needs to feast. If the defense feasts,

1415
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 5: we win. We feast on a Sunday fun day. That'll

1416
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 5: be an epic day.

1417
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 2: Ye all right? The final one next over under. The

1418
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 2: actual is forty four and a half. Zagora, forty four

1419
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 2: and a half is the actual.

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01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 5: MM I'll help you along. No, no, you you shouldn't.

1421
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 4: You should you can you can help me along.

1422
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 2: You should see this, help me, you should sit this out.

1423
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 4: What's what do you want to say? Give it? Let's

1424
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 4: looks the voice of the voices.

1425
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 5: No, no, no no. The voice of reason has told me

1426
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 5: to hold and I appreciate.

1427
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 4: Full back, hold back, give it. I'm gonna be a

1428
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 4: big number. It is a big number.

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01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, oh.

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01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 4: Boy, it's moved, by the way, the last time it's moved.

1431
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 5: Yep.

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01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 4: Yes, first playoff game for a rookie. I think this

1433
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 4: could it could be a little nervy early. I feel

1434
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 4: like there's to be a lot emotion. Maybe it takes

1435
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 4: some time to settle in. I can't believe I'm gonna do,

1436
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna go under the under forty four and

1437
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:41,959
Speaker 4: a half.

1438
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 2: Give it. You want to go under want to go

1439
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 2: under two.

1440
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, there's one. There's one that separate I'm

1441
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 5: going under.

1442
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 2: All right, very good. This is what's going to happen.

1443
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 2: If somehow it comes down to that one, then this

1444
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 2: assures us we're playing next week because this cannot end

1445
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 2: at a tie, can't have it.

1446
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 4: I agree, So we're playing next week. What would happen

1447
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 4: if if if it's not going to let's go to

1448
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 4: last week?

1449
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 2: Is it maybe go week eighteen as a tiebreaker?

1450
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 4: No?

1451
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 5: Should? We should be tied already?

1452
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 2: Well you should have give me you had two opportunities

1453
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 2: because the one you changed.

1454
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, could be tired, you could be tied, could literally

1455
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 4: be all resting on Amari Collins. And I can't wait

1456
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 4: to be the first one to tell Amari Cooper that

1457
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 4: Gibbe don't believe in you. I do. Could do that

1458
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:30,439
Speaker 4: not true?

1459
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 5: I do, not true.

1460
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 2: I thought his reasoning was fair. I thought his reasoning

1461
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 2: was saying he may.

1462
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 4: Be the personal interviewer of Miles Garrett, but I am

1463
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 4: the personal interview with Amari Cooper.

1464
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 5: I like it.

1465
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 2: Did you get some of those sneakers he's making?

1466
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 4: I like to have those pretty cool? I thought they looked.

1467
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 4: They kind of looked like old Iverson's.

1468
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 2: They look like a combination between Old Iverson's or Jordan Two's,

1469
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 2: a little bit of like a Jordan too. Look to

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Speaker 5: Oh but before that exclusive one on one coming up next.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of the.

1479
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 4: The guy that I believe in, You don't, Jason Gibbs,

1480
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 4: can you believe it? We book a Mari on the

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 4: show and the segment before he goes on the producer.

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01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,479
Speaker 5: We're gonna He had good reasoning, but I I would

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01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 5: also think that ma is going to go off. Yeah,

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01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 5: it's a little weird. Who know?

1485
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 6: Who know?

1486
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 4: Let me do this. Let me give you the reason.

1487
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper, that's the reason. That's it.

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01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 6: That's it.

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01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 4: I'm taking Amari Cooper over for what it's worth. I

1490
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 4: just want to say, he Devil's advocate is reasoning was understandable.

1491
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 4: Part of his hair is reaching for the stars. That's

1492
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 4: not what Gibb is doing. Gibbe is reaching for Nico Collins. Well,

1493
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,959
Speaker 4: here's the Alfalfa was a great character, and we all.

1494
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 5: Know I would like Nico Collins to do nothing. That

1495
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 5: is all that is true.

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Speaker 2: Z Z one on one with Amri coming up next,

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Speaker 4: five two thousand, or visit Ohio Businessmachines dot Com. Time

1510
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 4: now for the guy that I believe in and that

1511
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 4: Ghibbe does not. The man who holds the record for

1512
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 4: the most receiving yards in a single game in Cleveland

1513
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 4: Browns franchise history, the only receiver in Cleveland Brown's franchise

1514
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 4: history to have back to back seasons of one thousand yards.

1515
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 4: He is Amari Cooper. And here's what he had to

1516
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 4: say getting ready for the playoff game against the Texans.

1517
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 4: Very happy now to be joined by Browns wide receiver

1518
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper. Amari, first of all, congratulates, not a great

1519
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 4: season for you, career highing yards, career high and yards

1520
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:19,560
Speaker 4: per catch. You make a Pro Bowl again when you

1521
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 4: kind of look back at the regular season. We'll talk

1522
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 4: about the second season in a second, but what kind

1523
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 4: of came together for you? What worked so well?

1524
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,600
Speaker 10: Just being on the same page, you know with the quarterbacks,

1525
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 10: you know that communication really helps a lot because you know,

1526
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 10: as you know, you know, you can get as many

1527
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 10: practice reps as you want on a certain play, but

1528
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 10: you really only get one chance in a game, so

1529
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 10: you have to get it right. And I would say

1530
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 10: that that communication, that preparation has been the single most

1531
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:49,919
Speaker 10: important thing that has stuck.

1532
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 4: Out for me, did it mean somethingy to be recognized

1533
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 4: by the fans, your peers, and the coaches in this

1534
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 4: league for the season that you had given all the

1535
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 4: quarterbacks you played with in the perform at the level

1536
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 4: you did.

1537
01:09:57,840 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.

1538
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,719
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, there's not a player who doesn't

1539
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 10: play for respect. So respect is very important. That's not

1540
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 10: all we play for, but it's a very important thing.

1541
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 10: You want to be respected as a good player in

1542
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 10: this league because you know, why else, why else would

1543
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 10: you be playing.

1544
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 6: You know, So, yeah, it feels good, you know, to

1545
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 6: be not to be noticed by the players.

1546
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:20,879
Speaker 4: What does it mean to be back in the playoffs

1547
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 4: for you? You're all the guys on this team's got some

1548
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 4: playoff experience. What's it meant to be back?

1549
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 6: It means a lot. I mean, it feels good. I'm

1550
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 6: not gonna lie. It's a terrible feeling to.

1551
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 10: You know, not make the playoffs and then you know,

1552
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 10: the next week you have to watch teams play on TV,

1553
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 10: because I mean, that's.

1554
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 6: Really what you play for. You play for that.

1555
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 10: Second season because that's when everybody is watching. That's what

1556
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 10: makes great players, Hall of Fame players, That's what makes

1557
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,839
Speaker 10: good players great players. That's what that's what makes Okay

1558
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 10: players good players. Like this postseason, everybody is watching you know.

1559
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 10: You know, during the season, every team has their fan

1560
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 10: base that's watching their game. But you know in the postseason, hey,

1561
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 10: a lot of famis. You know, they don't have games

1562
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 10: to watch, so they watch the games it's on TV.

1563
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 10: And that's why you could really make a name for yourself.

1564
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 10: That's when a team could really make a name for itself. So, yeah,

1565
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 10: it feels good.

1566
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 4: You certainly have made a name for yourself. Five Pro Bowls,

1567
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 4: seven thousand yard seasons. You've etched your name into the

1568
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 4: history books with this franchise, first receiver ever to have

1569
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 4: back to back thousand yard seasons. And then we know

1570
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 4: what you did in Houston. We'll talk about that in

1571
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 4: a second, but you have an opportunity. You cemented a

1572
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 4: legacy here when you were traded here. I'm sure you

1573
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 4: wanted to come here be your best version of yourself.

1574
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 4: In two years, you certainly have made quite an impression

1575
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 4: on this franchise. What are kind of your goals obviously

1576
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 4: here in the playoff, not individually, I know it's to

1577
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 4: win the games, but kind of how do you approach this,

1578
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 4: as you said, knowing that this is a chance to

1579
01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 4: even further amplify all the great things you've accomplished in

1580
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 4: this league and certainly in this city.

1581
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:46,680
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, as a player, a lot

1582
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 10: is expected of you, your starter, that's you know, first things.

1583
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 6: First thing is first.

1584
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 10: I think if you talk to most starters in this league,

1585
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 10: guys will start it for a long time. They'll tell

1586
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 10: you that they feel like they've accomplished a lot, but

1587
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 10: there are still things on that list that they that

1588
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 10: they would love to check off.

1589
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 6: You know. Obviously one of them is the super Bowl,

1590
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So that's first things first.

1591
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 6: You know, I've never even been.

1592
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 10: To a super Bowl, let alone have won one. So

1593
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 10: that's the primary goal.

1594
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 4: When you played in Houston last you set the record

1595
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 4: too unded and sixty five yards in a single game.

1596
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 4: I'm sure you thought about it. That was probably a

1597
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 4: pretty special game. There was one route in particular that

1598
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 4: was my favorite in the game, and it was a

1599
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 4: third and one and you kind of came off the

1600
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 4: line like yeah, I'm gonna block you a little bit,

1601
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 4: lulled them to sleep, and then broke inside on that

1602
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 4: slant I called it on the blackets. I said this,

1603
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 4: that was art. You know, it was art that you

1604
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 4: painted right there, those little things. You know that you've

1605
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 4: now put those on tape against them? How do you

1606
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 4: kind of keep evolving? And was that? Did you enjoy

1607
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 4: the way that that play ultimately played out?

1608
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know though saying there's more than one way

1609
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 10: to skin a cat in his playoff, in his heightened atmosphere,

1610
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 10: you can't just you know, scout the other team.

1611
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:54,839
Speaker 6: You have to sell scout.

1612
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 10: You have to have more than one way of winning,

1613
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 10: you know, against these guys. So you know, that's what

1614
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 10: I That's what I'm gonna try to do when when

1615
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 10: the game arrives, because I know obviously that those guys

1616
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 10: are watching, you know, everything that I every probably every

1617
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 10: route that I've ran and looking at my releases and

1618
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 10: stuff like that. But you know, I've been playing this

1619
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 10: position for a long time. Like like I said before,

1620
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 10: I know how to run every route several ways.

1621
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 6: But as far as the route that you're talking about, yeah,

1622
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 6: it was.

1623
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 10: It's kind of how the route it's called though, So

1624
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 10: it wasn't just all creativity. It's kind of a lull

1625
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 10: them to sleep. Slant, and you know, I just went

1626
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 10: out there and I.

1627
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 6: Did my job.

1628
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 4: You most certainly did. When you play a team this closely,

1629
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 4: because you know you played them a couple of games ago.

1630
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 4: You often play a team in your vision twice. You

1631
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 4: get to know those guys very well. When you played

1632
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 4: a team though this recently, how does that change the

1633
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,280
Speaker 4: preparation or the impact of maybe, all right, I showed

1634
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 4: them this, so I'm gonna make it look like this,

1635
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 4: but do something else, you know, try to keep it

1636
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,719
Speaker 4: the variable there so you can get them guessing maybe wrong.

1637
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's another thing, you know, keep it simple, stupid. Yeah,

1638
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 10: you don't want to really get into all that overthinking

1639
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 10: because you know, even though it's the playoffs, and you know,

1640
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 10: teams are more intentional about their schemes.

1641
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 6: Teams and players.

1642
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 10: Have this income and then you know, at the end

1643
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 10: of the day, the eye and this guy doesn't lie.

1644
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 6: You are who you are.

1645
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 10: I mean, you can try to change up a few things,

1646
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 10: but you know, at the end of the day, that's

1647
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 10: you are what you put on tape. And if a

1648
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 10: team has you know, seventeen games worth the tape out

1649
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 10: there and they aren't changing that much. They're not gonna

1650
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 10: change that much come game time. You know, obviously they're

1651
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 10: gonna throw a couple of caveats, which we prepare for,

1652
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,560
Speaker 10: you know what I mean. But they're not gonna go

1653
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:38,679
Speaker 10: out there and run man a man every play because

1654
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 10: that's just not what they do. So so yeah, I mean,

1655
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 10: if we're talking about just myself on an individual level,

1656
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:48,600
Speaker 10: same thing, Like, I'm not trying to change up you

1657
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 10: know what I do. At the end of the day,

1658
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 10: this's got, yeah, it got. These guys have to stop me,

1659
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 10: you know what I mean. And you know I study

1660
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 10: them how they just like how they study me. So

1661
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 10: it's really it's at the end of the day, even playing.

1662
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 4: You talked about communication earlier, and clearly there's a lot

1663
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 4: of trust between you and Joe flaccoh that's obviously been

1664
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 4: a relationship that's been very prosperous for the both of you.

1665
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 4: What's kind of made it so special? And are you

1666
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 4: surprised even that it was able to happen so quickly

1667
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:13,560
Speaker 4: between the two of you.

1668
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised. You know.

1669
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 10: Sometimes that's the way the cookie crumbles, you know, sometimes

1670
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 10: with you know, other quarterbacks, it can be harder for

1671
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:23,679
Speaker 10: that chemistry to work.

1672
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 6: Man, you just have to be a great communicator.

1673
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 10: You have to be you have to have an eye

1674
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 10: for the game, I would say, because at the end

1675
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 10: of the day, you gotta think the quarterback probably played

1676
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 10: quarterback his whole life, just like I played receiver my

1677
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 10: whole life.

1678
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 6: So it's hard.

1679
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 10: It's hard for somebody who's been playing one position his

1680
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 10: whole life to see things through the lens of another position.

1681
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 10: So you got to be the communication is the key.

1682
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 10: But what people kind of forget when it comes to

1683
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 10: communication is the listening part. People always think of communication

1684
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 10: through the lens of just talking, but you know, when

1685
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 10: you're communicating with somebody, listening is just as important. So

1686
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 10: I try to listen, uh see what it's wanted from

1687
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 10: me from the quarterback, and you know, I try to

1688
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 10: I try to do those things and when I and

1689
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 10: when I talk, you know, I'm hopeful that he listens,

1690
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 10: and you know we can go from there.

1691
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 4: Can you give me, like an example, so it's be

1692
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 4: let's say you're running a particular route, will kind of

1693
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 4: tell me to talk me through that communication between you

1694
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 4: and and Joe on making sure that you're on the

1695
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 4: same page. And seeing through the same eyes on a

1696
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 4: particular route.

1697
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, I give you an example, like we have a

1698
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 10: we have a player. It's like a it's like a

1699
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 10: it's like a skinny post. Like a skinny post, it's

1700
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 10: a timing route. But sometimes, you know, you know, like

1701
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 10: I've said previously, these cornerbacks they get paid just like

1702
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 10: we do as receivers. You know, every player is getting paid.

1703
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:44,600
Speaker 10: And so some of these guys are good. You know,

1704
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,680
Speaker 10: they're smart. You know, they're tactical, and they try to

1705
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:50,600
Speaker 10: take away things. And on that skinny post, you just

1706
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 10: want to break across the cornerback's face and then the

1707
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 10: ball is supposed to be right there.

1708
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:55,799
Speaker 6: But sometimes these guys will.

1709
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 10: Take away the inside and you know, I can still

1710
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 10: get open, but I have to give a little something extra.

1711
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 10: And you know, one time we had that play called

1712
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 10: and I tried to give a little extra without really

1713
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 10: communicating it with Joe, and it really.

1714
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 6: Didn't work out.

1715
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 10: But then I went I went after and I told him, Hey,

1716
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:16,760
Speaker 10: this is why I did that, because he was doing this. Sorry,

1717
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 10: I didn't communicate it with you, and you know, you know.

1718
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 4: We would you be able to communicate that, like in

1719
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 4: the middle of a route. If he does this, I'm

1720
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 4: doing that.

1721
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1722
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:30,640
Speaker 10: So so so we had ran the route earlier in

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01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 10: the game, but he like the he didn't I didn't

1724
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 10: get the target. The way I would have been able

1725
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 10: to communicate that before the play is because I knew

1726
01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 10: it was in the game plan. Like I knew that, like,

1727
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,080
Speaker 10: you know every play that's in the game plan. You know,

1728
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,639
Speaker 10: he's probably like seventy plays per game, sixty seventy plays

1729
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 10: per game, but you know every single play that's in

1730
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 10: the plan. And I had noticed that those cornerbacks do

1731
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 10: that before the game, and I had already felt I

1732
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 10: should have communicated.

1733
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 6: That with Joe.

1734
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 10: But I was like, you know, maybe maybe it's not

1735
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 10: necessary to communicate communicate that. Maybe he'll just you know,

1736
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:04,880
Speaker 10: maybe he'll just see me do the move and then

1737
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:05,799
Speaker 10: he'll adjust.

1738
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 6: But it didn't work out that way.

1739
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 4: That's the game within the game right there, and that's

1740
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 4: the fascinating part of it. All Right, you're going back

1741
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:13,760
Speaker 4: to Houston. Two last questions. One, I remember we talked

1742
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 4: after the throw against Chicago, which you said was one

1743
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 4: of the best throws you've ever been on the receiving

1744
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 4: end of which one was crazier that throw against Chicago

1745
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 4: or the one on fourth down in Houston where he's

1746
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 4: falling down and somehow got the ball to you on

1747
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:27,599
Speaker 4: the sideline. W Were you even shocked when that ball

1748
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:28,720
Speaker 4: started coming your way?

1749
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 10: So I wasn't shocked, but only because I had saw

1750
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 10: him do it one of the previous something game he

1751
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:40,719
Speaker 10: started in before that, he had done something similar showing

1752
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 10: his showing his arm strength, like he was getting he

1753
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 10: was getting tackled, and he still was able to let

1754
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 10: the ball off. And most quarterbacks aren't that aren't that strong,

1755
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 10: and they can't do it. They'll just take the sack.

1756
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 10: And it's kind of risky, like if you think about it,

1757
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 10: because you don't know if you're going to be able

1758
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 10: to get the ball that.

1759
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 6: Far unless you really trust your arm strength.

1760
01:18:57,920 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 4: So you know, if you don't, that's a pick sex,

1761
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 4: it's a pick six.

1762
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 10: So when I was running, I was like, it's just instantly,

1763
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 10: something just instantly clicked in my head and said he's

1764
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 10: gonna throw this.

1765
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:08,640
Speaker 6: I just knew he was gonna throw it.

1766
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 10: I mean obviously it was fourth down too, so I

1767
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 10: just stayed alive. It was impressive, but I don't think

1768
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 10: it was more impressive than the Bears than the Bear's throw.

1769
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:22,600
Speaker 10: It's hard to explain, but you know, one is armstrength,

1770
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 10: but the other one it's just like instinct, it is confidence.

1771
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 6: It's so much more. Yeah, so yeah, I think the

1772
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 6: Bear's throw was better.

1773
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 4: You know that this locker room is special. You know

1774
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 4: that this city I'm sure you felt the Thursday night,

1775
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:37,639
Speaker 4: even though you were on the sidelines in that game

1776
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 4: against the Jets, this city is on fire special. What

1777
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 4: does it kind of mean to go out there with

1778
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 4: these guys and represent this city in the postseason with

1779
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 4: a chance to do something you know, historic. You've done

1780
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 4: already some historic things with the Browns. You bring a

1781
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 4: Super Bowl that's down, Oh baby, that is going to

1782
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 4: be historic as well.

1783
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:52,599
Speaker 6: Yeah, it feels good.

1784
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 10: I mean, you know when you have to locker room

1785
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 10: full of guys who are together, a locker room full

1786
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 10: of guys who really want to win, A locker room

1787
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 10: for the guys who you know they put the work in,

1788
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 10: and so when you put the work in, you always

1789
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 10: feel like you deserve to get the results. So it

1790
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 10: feels good to go out there and you know, play

1791
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 10: with these guys. As far as for the city, you know.

1792
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 10: I you know, I've been around the city a little

1793
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 10: bit now being at this is my second year. You know,

1794
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 10: Cleveland fans are phenomenal. The people here are great.

1795
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 6: You know.

1796
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 10: Obviously all the fans want is one thing. They want

1797
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 10: a Super Bowl. But I think I think all the

1798
01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 10: teams with diehard fans like our fan base deserve a

1799
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 10: Super Bowl, and uh we need to go get that thing.

1800
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 4: AMRII thanks so much for the time. Can't wait to

1801
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:38,120
Speaker 4: see out there on Saturday, and best of luck.

1802
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 6: Thank you.

1803
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 4: That was Amari. I gotta tell you to be honest,

1804
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 4: my belief is even higher now than it was earlier,

1805
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:45,600
Speaker 4: when Gibbet's belief was so low, mine so high. It

1806
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 4: feels even higher now, Amari Cooper, Let's have a game

1807
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:53,759
Speaker 4: down there coming up next, Baby, you better pay attention

1808
01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 4: to the schooles.

1809
01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:03,240
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1813
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1814
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Speaker 2: now time for a little segment we like to call,

1823
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 2: pay attention.

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01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 4: To the scores. By the way, even if so you

1825
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 4: got six games this weekend, yep. For the next weekend yep,

1826
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 4: then two, then one, thirteen NFL games are left yep.

1827
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 4: Even if we lost all of them, yep, we would

1828
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 4: both be more than fifty five games over five hundred.

1829
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 2: In the time that we been doing it. This is

1830
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 2: the news.

1831
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:02,639
Speaker 4: This is the news.

1832
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 2: We had one like year one or two year one,

1833
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:08,600
Speaker 2: way high, but we've always always been but not like this,

1834
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 2: not like this.

1835
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 4: This is all you. Last week, last week, a couple

1836
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 4: of nine and sevens started off hot, by the way,

1837
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:18,679
Speaker 4: red hot. Six of our first seven games.

1838
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 5: You went nine and seven in a week that we

1839
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:25,639
Speaker 5: didn't know what seven or eight of those games, even

1840
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:26,559
Speaker 5: we're going to resemble.

1841
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:30,839
Speaker 4: To be fair, the majority of our wins came in

1842
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:32,440
Speaker 4: in real games.

1843
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 5: Well, that means you have more credibility.

1844
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 2: That's true, because there was something we had no clue.

1845
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 2: You no idea who was going to try or who wasn't,

1846
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 2: or like Philly for example, like you had no idea

1847
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 2: what their motivation would be, how they would play, and

1848
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 2: they pushed the chips in a so that started going bad.

1849
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 4: And by the way, once the Jags had lost and

1850
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 4: then that put Buffalo automatically in, Yeah, I would have

1851
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 4: gone that one. I would have switch. I'm not taking credit

1852
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 4: for but I would have switched. That was when I

1853
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 4: was still trying to will a scenario where yeah, Buffalo, yeah,

1854
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 4: ye were saying to wilsonarios that allowed us to get

1855
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 4: a home playoff game is easy.

1856
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 2: It did not happen.

1857
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 4: No, the Jags, great job out of us, they ruined it.

1858
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:10,560
Speaker 4: Great job out of us, not surprising. Can't be surprised

1859
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 4: with that being said. So, by the way, both nine seven,

1860
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 4: you're now seventy seventy games over five hundreds. I'm sixty eight.

1861
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 2: There's nobody in anyone that there's Somebody in this business

1862
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 2: that's doing better than that can work every game, every

1863
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:29,839
Speaker 2: game that's crazy, every game, every game on every level.

1864
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 5: Welcome to wild Card Weekend, Dragon Super wild Card Weekend

1865
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:42,440
Speaker 5: six games. We kicked things off Saturday night, Miami, Kansas

1866
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 5: City dangerously wind, dangerous wind, chills, weather awful, gross. Yeah,

1867
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:54,799
Speaker 5: Welcome South Beach fans to Kansas City, America's heartland. Oh baby,

1868
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 5: it's a girl.

1869
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 4: If there's one thing that somebody who comes from the

1870
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan true like Mike McDaniel does that they know

1871
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 4: how to do ultimately, is they know how to get

1872
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 4: a creative run game going. And I think this is

1873
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 4: gonna be a game where you're gonna need the run game.

1874
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 4: And just because of the fact that you have Tyreek

1875
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 4: Hill out there and I'm guessing Waddle will be available.

1876
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 4: I guess as they've been building towards this moment to

1877
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 4: get those guys back, you won't be able to just

1878
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 4: overload the box because one on one Tyrak Killer Waddle

1879
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,879
Speaker 4: they can run right by you. So I think Miami

1880
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 4: is gonna do enough of this, And I'm just not

1881
01:24:25,400 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 4: impressed with Kansas City. Am I willing to stake that

1882
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 4: Miami's gonna win, I don't have to, so I won't

1883
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 4: say that per se, even though I think it's possible.

1884
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 4: But what I will say is that regardless, irregardless, they

1885
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 4: will be close.

1886
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1887
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna say this one for fun. We'll call

1888
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 4: it Chiefs twenty one Dolphins twenty.

1889
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm with you. I think it's an ugly, ugly

1890
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 2: game too. I don't even know if it gets that high.

1891
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 2: I don't know what the what the total is on this,

1892
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 2: but I think it's I think it's got a chance

1893
01:24:57,439 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 2: to be like sixteen thirteen.

1894
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 4: I think it's back to forty same as.

1895
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 2: Is it up now? To me, it's got a chance

1896
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 2: to be really I think this has a chance to

1897
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 2: be really ugly and muddied up. I think it'll be

1898
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:10,719
Speaker 2: under that. I think Kansas City these two teams on paper,

1899
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:12,599
Speaker 2: they look like teams that are gonna go up and down.

1900
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 2: But in these conditions and the way Kansas City's been.

1901
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:16,439
Speaker 4: Hasn't been, I just don't see it.

1902
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 2: So I'm with you. I think Kansas City can win

1903
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 2: a very close game, but I would not be surprised

1904
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:24,679
Speaker 2: if Miami won either. I'll go Kansas City seventeen sixteen.

1905
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 5: So same to Sunday. We go triple header Sunday, starting

1906
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:33,919
Speaker 5: at one o'clock on CBS Nance Romo Bills Mafia hosting

1907
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 5: the Squealers.

1908
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 2: Bishop last couple of times the Sneelers the Steelers have

1909
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 2: snuck into the playoffs, they've been absolutely boat racing lump

1910
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 2: once they get there. No TJ. Watt, we had that

1911
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 2: crazy stat that we talked about yesterday and one that

1912
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 2: we had talked about last year. When he's there, when

1913
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 2: he's not that it's like a touchdown difference, and so

1914
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 2: that's incredible. I think it's poised for the Bills to

1915
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 2: go huge in this one, and honestly, it can be

1916
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: an ugly huge. They can win twenty to three and

1917
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 2: you're still fine. So give me the Bills winning this

1918
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 2: one twenty two to six. Absolutely, Bills ram it same.

1919
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 4: And by the way, yesterday when we brought that up,

1920
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 4: that was in our one Thing look Ahead, which was

1921
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 4: a brilliantly orchestrated segment. Very good job.

1922
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,839
Speaker 5: Next, the middle game of the Day, four thirty on Fox.

1923
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:20,719
Speaker 5: It is the Fox A Team Cowboys hosting the Green

1924
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 5: Bay Packers. It's called Keeping It Moving.

1925
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 2: You were adamant.

1926
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 5: I am yesterday. It was Love and the Packers are

1927
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 5: gonna let you down, like and they're even playing McCarthy.

1928
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 5: And you know, I don't like McCarthy either.

1929
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 2: I like the coaching acumen advantage in green Bay. I

1930
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:38,680
Speaker 2: think green Bay is a little better. I think there's

1931
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 2: gonna be a ton of pressure on Dallas. I think

1932
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 2: Dallas wins the game, but I think it's a little

1933
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:45,719
Speaker 2: closer than the experts think. Dallas thirty one, twenty seven.

1934
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:46,599
Speaker 4: Same.

1935
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 5: When was the last time the Packers won a playoff game?

1936
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 5: Do you know the answer? I don't, but thirteen you did?

1937
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 5: I know, But like they had a couple No, no, they

1938
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 5: had a couple of years at thirteen and three. Remember

1939
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 5: the forty nine Ers went into Green Bay and punked them.

1940
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 5: They did.

1941
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 2: But Jordan Love is not Aaron Rodgers. He's better. He

1942
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:04,640
Speaker 2: won the game to get into the playoffs.

1943
01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:05,640
Speaker 1: Rogers did not.

1944
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 5: Oh all right, well he looks that up.

1945
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 4: Hold on, here you go. Last time that they won

1946
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:17,719
Speaker 4: in the playoffs would have been twenty twenty. They lost

1947
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,719
Speaker 4: in the conference championship in twenty and nineteen.

1948
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 5: So in the past couple of years when they've had

1949
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 5: thirteen wins. They have not had lots of.

1950
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:29,479
Speaker 4: One year when they went thirteen to four and they

1951
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 4: lost in the divisional round. Then last year, two years

1952
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 4: ago they went eight to nine, didn't make it, and

1953
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 4: this year nine and eight they made it.

1954
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:43,480
Speaker 5: Yep, all right, Sunday Night football Rams Leons Los Angeles

1955
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 5: coming east, but to a dome, Detroit City hosting Bishop.

1956
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 2: I just I think this could get nervy for Detroit,

1957
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 2: especially if they give up a couple of times, if

1958
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 2: they get down a couple of scores. But I don't

1959
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:59,600
Speaker 2: think they will. I think they're the better team. I

1960
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 2: think that the physical team. I like Detroit taking care

1961
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 2: of business, winning one at home. It's been a long

1962
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 2: time coming. They exercised some demons there and they get

1963
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 2: the win. I like them winning thirty to twenty four.

1964
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 4: DLD is gonna be popping off on Monday, Baby Lee Holiday.

1965
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:14,120
Speaker 5: Maybe they will.

1966
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 2: Maybe Zones, No.

1967
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 4: You're right on Tuesday.

1968
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 5: There you go.

1969
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:19,440
Speaker 2: You got an a Tuesday.

1970
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 6: That's right.

1971
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 4: Lions four hundred rams, zero GoF going nuts.

1972
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 5: I hope so so the Monday Nighter Eagles have lost

1973
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 5: five of six games. They've lost to the Niners, Cowboys, Seahawks,

1974
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals and New York Football Giants. Their one win

1975
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 5: came against the Giants. Can they right the ship for

1976
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 5: the playoffs? Eagles at Tampa Bay and the Baker Mayfield

1977
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 5: led Buccaneers Zagora.

1978
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:58,680
Speaker 4: Philly feels broken to me, they really do. But are

1979
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 4: they that broken? I don't know. I don't I'm not

1980
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 4: sure that they are quite that broken. I think the

1981
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:10,679
Speaker 4: Eagles get it together. It's going to be a close game,

1982
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 4: and there could be the potential for a little knock

1983
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 4: at the back door, say if they're you know, up

1984
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 4: eight or up nine, something like that. But I think

1985
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 4: the Eagles do enough and they win this one twenty

1986
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:21,760
Speaker 4: one fourteen.

1987
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1988
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 2: I just think it's bakes a little hurt too. And

1989
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 2: they were dreadful last week in a game had they've

1990
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:32,200
Speaker 2: been bad, And I know Philly's got issues, but I

1991
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 2: just think champions prerogative for one week at least give

1992
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:40,400
Speaker 2: me the Eagles winning by at least a couple, winning

1993
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 2: by six. I could see it being seventeen to nine

1994
01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 2: something like that. I like Philly, right, like it. So

1995
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 2: we picked all we would end up all the same. Yeah,

1996
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 2: how about that? That's usually it's good. It historically says

1997
01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 2: it is. It would would seem that that would be

1998
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 2: very very good. All right, Your update for Saturday on

1999
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns Radio Network twelve thirty Cleveland Brown's Game

2000
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 2: Day with Kenn and Gerard, and then at two thirty

2001
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 2: the Kickoff Show, Andy and Tayvas, and then at four

2002
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 2: thirty it is the Browns, it is the Texans at

2003
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 2: NRG Stadium in Houston. It is Jim the Voice, Z

2004
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 2: and Gerrod on the call, Browns and Texans.

2005
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 5: Buddy, let's go. I feel like we've been We've been

2006
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 5: waiting around for this for a long time. Throw in

2007
01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 5: last week's Bengals game. Great two weeks like, let's go,

2008
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,639
Speaker 5: let's go. Let's get this going and see whatever.

2009
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:27,680
Speaker 2: Is going to handling this man? Come on, Yes, all

2010
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 2: of the things they do well, we have antidute for

2011
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 2: antidote for I like it. I think this is going

2012
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 2: to be a fun one down down in Houston.

2013
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 4: Twenty three fourteen, Browns seventy seven zero, Great, seventy seven zero.

2014
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 4: I'll take it. Yeah, I'll take that all day.

2015
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 2: Just a coronation. Well, let's go step and then on

2016
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 2: to Baltimore.

2017
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:52,360
Speaker 4: Step one, it will end up.

2018
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:56,720
Speaker 2: Being Baltimore, provided that happens. Yeah, Peo both think that. Well, Miami, Yeah,

2019
01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 2: my name's got a punch his chance. They got a

2020
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,680
Speaker 2: punch a chance in that thing. Hey, kids, enjoy your

2021
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 2: playoff game on Saturday. We'll be back to break it

2022
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 2: all down next week. Thanks for listening, everybody. You listen

2023
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:09,400
Speaker 2: to Cleveland Browns Daily on a fifty ESPN Cleveland. You've

2024
01:31:09,439 --> 01:31:12,559
Speaker 2: been listening to Cleveland Browns Daily, a production of the

2025
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:17,080
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