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Speaker 2: dot com. One of the things that that you and

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Speaker 2: I lament oftentimes is this notion that everybody is out

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Speaker 2: to get Cleveland, the Cleveland against the world mentality. I

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Speaker 2: don't necessarily think it's always the case. It might be

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Speaker 2: this year. I think it is this year as a

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Speaker 2: as an operation goes and as a don't believe in

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Speaker 2: us goes. I don't know that any team as talented

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Speaker 2: as this one is facing the naysayers. The way this

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Speaker 2: one is there is it's prediction time. This is when

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Speaker 2: you make your picks. Who's a playoff team, who's not,

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Speaker 2: Who's going to win the division, who's not?

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Speaker 3: Nothing, zip, zilch, nad a nothing. It is. It's kind

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Speaker 3: of incredible.

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Speaker 4: And you look at some of the teams and we'll

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Speaker 4: get to it a little bit later on the specifics

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Speaker 4: of where people have this Cleveland Browns football team ranked

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Speaker 4: relative to others. When you think of the quality of

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Speaker 4: the roster, it's kind of overwhelming. In fact, the only

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Speaker 4: person that I've heard, and I don't know if you

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Speaker 4: guys saw this clip say something positive about the Browns

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Speaker 4: and this roster was Brooks. Bucky Brooks said that, you

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Speaker 4: guys are all kidding yourselves. This is probably the best

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Speaker 4: roster in the AFC North and one of the top

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Speaker 4: four rosters in the NFL. This team is going to

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Speaker 4: be a team of consequence. And I think right now,

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Speaker 4: you know, there are a lot of people that are

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Speaker 4: down on the Browns. I guess for a variety of reasons,

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Speaker 4: our past, you know, failures. I would think certainly would

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Speaker 4: be cheap among them to discuss our team in the

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Speaker 4: quarterback situation. But this is a very talented football team.

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Speaker 4: And you know, people, I'm sure you got this over

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Speaker 4: the weekend. Okay, all right, what's what's the real date?

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Speaker 3: I said?

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Speaker 4: Look, oh constantly, I said, I've never been more excited

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Speaker 4: and also more nervous for a season. And the reason

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Speaker 4: I say that is this, This team has it all.

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Speaker 3: There are no excuses. We've talked about that.

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Speaker 4: This team's got everything it needs on its roster, it

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Speaker 4: has the coaching staff in place, it has all of that.

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Speaker 4: But this is also a season of great consequence. This

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Speaker 4: is a season where the outcomes will matter in a

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Speaker 4: bigger way than perhaps at any time in recent Cleveland

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Speaker 4: Brown's memory. And so there is a lot at stake here.

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Speaker 4: There is so much to gain and also so much

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Speaker 4: to lose. And this team, I think outside is flying

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Speaker 4: under the radar, but I think inside knows exactly who

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Speaker 2: Because we kick off a game week and we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have a game on Sunday, and you're gonna get no

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Speaker 2: bigger tests than what you're gonna get right out of

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Speaker 2: the gates against Cincinnati. Now we'll see what's gonna go

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Speaker 2: on with Burrow and what is he's gonna play play.

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Speaker 3: He hasn't.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't done a whole lot over the course of

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Speaker 2: last week. But I do think that you know what

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Speaker 2: you hit on there when you when you were talking

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Speaker 2: all understand the pressure, and this is the most pressure

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Speaker 2: packed season that that I've been around. In first year

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Speaker 2: of Sports Illustrated and all that stuff. Yeah, but that

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Speaker 2: off the rails. Like this roster is a finished product roster,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the type of roster it is. There

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Speaker 2: aren't any holes on it, to your point, And so

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Speaker 2: with that comes pressure, and how are you going to

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Speaker 2: people are banking their their opinions on what this team

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Speaker 2: will be on what Deshaun Watson was in the last

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Speaker 2: six games of last year, which is so hard for

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Speaker 3: He has not football in the last two years. That

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Speaker 2: He's not thirty seven, he's not coming off a catastrophic injury.

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Speaker 2: He was a top five, folks, not top ten. He

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Speaker 2: was a top five quarterback the last time he played

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Speaker 2: a full season. Yeah, and I think you're gonna get

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Speaker 3: I agree with you.

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Speaker 4: I also think it's interesting when everybody keeps talking about,

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Speaker 4: you know, last year and the six games, nobody talks

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Speaker 5: Quarters receptions, so all right, good, But in the final

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Speaker 5: six quarters, five touchdown passes, two interceptions.

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Speaker 4: That's a sustainable ratio two and a half to one.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's been better that in his career. He's

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Speaker 4: been almost, you know, three to one, a close even

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Speaker 4: is highly more likely you get that version of him.

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Speaker 4: And then you think about the talent on offense, the

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Speaker 4: talent on this line. Your line's got two guys that

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Speaker 4: are Pro Bowlers perennially. You have another guy who's been

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Speaker 4: we got somebody who's on the ascent. Donovan Peoples Jones

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Speaker 4: along with Dalvin Thomason, you've remade this defense.

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Speaker 3: The addition of.

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Speaker 4: Jim Schwartz, Like we said, it's all there. What's interesting

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Speaker 4: is that there isn't anybody when you ever see a

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Speaker 3: No, ever, no in that ranking.

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Speaker 4: But then in a power ranking, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: So then what that speaks to then is that you

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Speaker 2: do not believe in the intangibles. You don't believe in

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Speaker 3: Don't believe in anything. Right, because it's not.

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Speaker 2: The roster on its own ought ought to be where

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Speaker 2: the roster typically is. It's the other parts of it

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Speaker 4: It's enough to suggest, okay, it's enough to suggest that, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if the Shawn Watson's going to be

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Speaker 4: are ranking our team relative to the strength of our

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Speaker 3: The worst quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, look, we've seen it we know that's

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Speaker 4: We saw it in the preseason and very limited action.

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Speaker 4: But look sharp is clearly he's fast. The ball's coming

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Speaker 4: out very nicely. The sort of the chief and the

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Speaker 4: So you saw a little bit of everything, and then

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Speaker 4: this has a chance, I think, to be one of

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Speaker 3: Internally, they're very.

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Speaker 4: Confident in cam Mitchell if he has to step in

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Speaker 4: McLeod Delpin and Thornhill out there. So this is the roster,

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Speaker 4: is all. I can't wait for the games, but it is.

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Speaker 4: It's like, I'm very excited, but I also am and

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Speaker 4: I have one hundred percent belief that this is a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so.

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Speaker 4: Now they've got to go do it. And it starts

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Speaker 4: out very difficultly. It's funny, like I was watching a

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Speaker 4: and before the preseason they were kind of consensusy the

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Speaker 4: fourth team in our division.

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Speaker 4: And because Kenny Pickett had a nice preseason, all of

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Speaker 2: It just so that one, I think is more like

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Speaker 3: It's something that we aspired to be.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's it brings back to that question

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Speaker 2: of pressure in that we have to go do it.

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Speaker 3: That's it. I mean, we just have to go do it.

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Speaker 2: That's where we're at, and that's where all of that

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Speaker 2: the reality is that that there aren't that many ways

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Speaker 2: based on where this roster is, if.

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Speaker 4: This roster and this coaching staff, if this was all

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Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're top eight in every power ranking. Yes, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the reputation precedes you in this in this instance,

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Speaker 2: so you've got to go do it.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's where that pressure comes from.

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Speaker 4: Yes, because this is a season where the Browns, I think,

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Speaker 4: have a chance to completely change the narrative about this

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Speaker 4: organ team and what it means, what it is, where

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Speaker 4: it's going, that it's a team of consequence, that it's

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Speaker 4: a team that can compete for super Bowls because it's

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Speaker 4: all there. And so that's where it's your point. That's

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Speaker 4: where the pressure comes from, because if you fall short

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Speaker 4: where we go. This team that's too good to fail,

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Speaker 4: and so they've got to go out there and they've

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Speaker 2: Of course, as I mentioned, we are live here at

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Speaker 3: Which is great. It's great. They were sure he was gone.

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Speaker 3: And sure enough, sure enough, sure enough he was.

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Speaker 3: So maybe that took It also could.

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Speaker 3: That's it. That's it for that position.

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Speaker 2: Nothing else doesn't matter, nothing else matters. We will have

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Speaker 3: Charles Davis has been washed. But that's a great group. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd rather do I mean, I think it would

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Speaker 3: It was great.

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Speaker 2: I think it's pretty clear that they have a quarterback

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. His post game was unreal. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: The whole weekend is like, you're not supposed to do that,

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Speaker 4: And the story do you see the story that he

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Speaker 2: The TCU job has been open, and he wanted that

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Speaker 2: Well, the athletic director at Colorado had a lot to

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