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Speaker 1: straight Fire Fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty second, And boy, oh boy, I've seen the

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Speaker 1: movie Hustle after many many of you told me to

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Speaker 1: in a second, but first I'll tell you but today's

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Speaker 1: guest he is Jay Crawford. He is one of the

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Speaker 1: guys in Cleveland right now setting the agenda. He's got

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Speaker 1: a new YouTube show. He is a TV sports anchor

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Speaker 1: at NBC in Cleveland. And we dive deep into Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 1: which seems like it's kind of at the end. It

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Speaker 1: feels like we're getting close to a decision on Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: We talked a little Amari Cooper and just this this situation,

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Speaker 1: a little Baker Mayfield. I think you'll like it, even

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Speaker 1: if you're not a Browns fan. It's starting to get

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Speaker 1: back into the NFL season, so we take a break

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Speaker 1: from the NBA Draft and we dive into the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But first I need to talk about Hustle, the Adam

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Speaker 1: a lot of people love Adam Sandler movies, and yes,

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Speaker 1: he has made plenty of good ones. I am on

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Speaker 1: his IMDb page right now going through, and I'll say like,

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Speaker 1: Sandler has done a bunch of good movies, no doubt

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Speaker 1: people are gonna be like, Jason, come on, those are classics.

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Speaker 1: How have you not seen them? Well, you know some

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Speaker 1: of his obviously his SNL stuff is unsurpassed, it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at his movies, I thought Billy

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Speaker 1: The Hot Chick, I mean really Anger Management, fifty first Dates, Spanglish, Like,

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Speaker 1: what what? What are these movies? I'm looking his IMDb

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Speaker 1: I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry. Only seen I

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Speaker 1: I will say the grown ups those two movies have

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Speaker 1: It's just guys making fun of each other. I like

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Speaker 1: That being said, I absolutely loved Hustle. I I'm ready

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Speaker 1: think Hustle is right there with it. You think he

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Speaker 1: knows a guy who does. Let's just say I know

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Speaker 1: which looks fun. Jay, how are you man? Good brother?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm excellent. You know there's always when

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Speaker 1: always one of those, Jay, do we have to do? You?

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Speaker 1: Where are people right now? How are Cleveland fans handling this?

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Speaker 1: that was what I was leading it to I mean

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Speaker 1: the nuke, Like, if Watson's gone the whole season, I

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Speaker 1: know Baker Mayfield is done there and all that. I

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Speaker 1: get that. But if for some reason Watson is suspended

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Speaker 1: for the whole season and they don't reduce it, I

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Speaker 1: mean I don't think that they would try out Jacobi percent.

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Speaker 1: But can they mend fences with Baker Mayfield? He knows,

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Speaker 1: you see, he was there last year. He knows. Jason.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, um one of the most dumbfounding

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Speaker 1: things about this entire First of all, I thought the

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Speaker 1: decision to move on from Baker Mayfield was incredibly premature

437
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Speaker 1: and a knee jerk reaction to a guy who tried

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Speaker 1: to gut it out and play hurt all year last year.

439
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: Brown That's that's the Browns. So I mean, look, people

440
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Speaker 1: have forgotten that there was a thirty year stretch where

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Speaker 1: we didn't go to a playoff game. Baker rolls in

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Speaker 1: and in the span of nine months a year, Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield goes from the night in shining Armor to the

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Speaker 1: Antichrist that must be ridden out of town on one ring.

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Speaker 1: And it's dumbfounding to me. It's it's really dumbfounding to

446
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Speaker 1: me that this guy came in here, reversed our fortunes,

447
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Speaker 1: beat Pittsburgh in the last game of the regular season

448
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Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs, then went back to Pittsburgh

449
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Speaker 1: and beat them in the first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They were a bad call and a fourth down in

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Speaker 1: seventeen conversion from a backup quarterback to going to the

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Speaker 1: a f C Championship game in Buffalo, and who knows

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Speaker 1: what the hell happens if they're there, and now because

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Speaker 1: and and even now. So they finished eight and nine

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Speaker 1: last year. They beat Cincinnati forty one to fourteen when

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Speaker 1: both teams were at full strength, and that game was

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and Baker Mayfield looked like Tom Brady and

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow looked like he was completely out of his element.

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Speaker 1: So the Bengals are the bar in which all teams

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Speaker 1: are measured in the a f C. Right, they went

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl Cleveland boat raced them down there

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and Baker played one of his best games

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Speaker 1: as a pro yet. And then there's there's two or

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Speaker 1: three games where and you could say this for any team,

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Speaker 1: and I get that, there's two or three games where

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Speaker 1: flukey things happen and they lose the football game. You know,

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Speaker 1: if if, if those games are flipped. The Browns finished

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Speaker 1: two games behind the Bengals last year in the standings too.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that Green Bay game on Christmas was

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Speaker 1: a killer. That was nuts. I been yeah, and they

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Speaker 1: still could have won the game. They were with it right,

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Speaker 1: So at that point I felt like they were like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we gotta be done with Baker. He's holding

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Speaker 1: us back. We just got to run the football. We

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Speaker 1: just need a placeholder quarterback. I mean, he was really

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Speaker 1: bad in that game, and I've I've defended he was

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Speaker 1: hurt too, and people want to write that off, and

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Speaker 1: I've I've talked to quarterbacks who have had that injury

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Speaker 1: on their non throwing shoulder and they all say the

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Speaker 1: same thing. So it hurts every time you throw the football,

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Speaker 1: even if you're shot up. You're playing all season with Payne,

482
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Speaker 1: you're getting hit there. The other team knows that's the

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Speaker 1: target and they're going for it. I thought Baker was

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Speaker 1: valiant last year. Here's my thing too, all right, he

485
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Speaker 1: was hurt. It was obvious. Anybody that watched every snap

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Speaker 1: of the Browns from knows without questions, something's wrong with Baker.

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Speaker 1: That does take a rocket science scientists to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't have the Browns been the adult in the

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Speaker 1: room and said, Baker, you're off the field my weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was obvious this wasn't the same guy. Take him

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Speaker 1: off the field. They could. They let him play week

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Speaker 1: after week after week after week, and then we get

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Speaker 1: to this point where, well, we think we can win

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Speaker 1: with them. We're gonna move forward with them. Wait a minute, No,

495
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go after DeShawn Watson. No we're not. He

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Speaker 1: told us. No, Baker said, I want to be traded.

497
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Speaker 1: They get desperate, they break the bank and give them

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Speaker 1: the richest contract in the history of the NFL to

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Speaker 1: a guy who may not play. So I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think the decision to move on from Baker in the

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Speaker 1: first place was hastily made. I think that they can

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Speaker 1: win with Baker Mayfield. They were a fourth and seventeen

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Speaker 1: away from beating Kansas City and going to the a

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Speaker 1: f C Championship Game just two years ago, and just overnight,

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00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: the guy forgot how to play football. Come on. Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Is there a scenario, j

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Speaker 1: where you think Baker Mayfield takes another stop for this team?

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00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: I definitely save. I've been Jason. I've been saying on

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Speaker 1: our show every day for five weeks. Look, he's still

513
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Speaker 1: on the roster. He's he's sitting there. He's an insurance policy.

514
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Speaker 1: So what do you are you gonna tell me that?

515
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Speaker 1: And this is where egos getting a way. Okay, I

516
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: think they're pissed that he said I'm done. I think

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Speaker 1: it's more on Baker. You lied to me, You told

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Speaker 1: me that you weren't gonna do this. You did it. Now.

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Speaker 1: I want to be traded. So but I do think

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Speaker 1: that if they were to go to Baker and try

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Speaker 1: to mend the fence. Look, we need each other, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we we're gonna be without a quarterback for probably half

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Speaker 1: the year, maybe the whole year. You don't have a team.

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Speaker 1: You want an audition for the other thirty one teams.

525
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: Come prove us wrong, Come show us that we made

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Speaker 1: a mistake. All of his teammates that have been asked

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Speaker 1: this would welcome him back with open arms. How much

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Speaker 1: do you think Jay that Odell Beckham and Jervis Landry

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Speaker 1: former LSU teammates. Then they get to Cleveland, it's like,

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Speaker 1: oh we got something, and now it's like whoa. Both

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Speaker 1: are gone and Baker was the guy. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: they lost confidence in the quarterback to think that was

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Speaker 1: a big one. Yeah, I think I think Kevin Stefanski

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Speaker 1: lost confidence in him as as he's watching and try

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Speaker 1: to play through the injury, which again is mystifying to me,

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Speaker 1: pull him, get him off the field. It's it's easy

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Speaker 1: to do. He had a he had an injury in

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Speaker 1: week two of the season that needed surgery, and he

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Speaker 1: decided to play through it and wait to do surgery

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Well, the Browns could

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Speaker 1: have stepped in and said, well, what do you think

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00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: Baker is just gonna storm the field and play even

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Speaker 1: if the Browns don't want him to, like be the

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Speaker 1: adult in the room. Stefanski Andrew Barry step up and

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Speaker 1: say this man is hurt. It's obvious he's hurt. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna pull him off the field and take our chances.

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00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: And then it's not Baker looking like he tapped out.

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00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: Baker is a tough guy. And let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: The week one matchup that you want to circle on

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Speaker 1: the calendar is Carolina posting the Browns in week one

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Speaker 1: because it's it's my belief that Baker will end up

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Speaker 1: in carol Nina and you you're gonna have a must

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Speaker 1: watch football game when Carolina welcomes the Browns in week

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Speaker 1: one with a backup quarterback. I will tell you that

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Speaker 1: game for Carolina. I've been I think that Baker would

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Speaker 1: and I'm I think that's what's getting Baker through all

557
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Speaker 1: of this. Let me see them in week one with

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Speaker 1: The one thing we know about Baker Mayfield is when

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Speaker 1: he feels that he's been unfairly blind, he he puts

560
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Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder the size of the Big Apple.

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Speaker 1: He led Oklahoma to a national championship game and won

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Speaker 1: a Highsman trophy after the first school tells him you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna start, You're not good enough to start, despite

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Speaker 1: the fact you came in and played your ass off,

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Speaker 1: played well, We're gonna now relegate you back to the bench. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving. I go to Oklahoma. He's three on the

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Speaker 1: depth chart. Next thing, you know, he's winning the Heisman

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Speaker 1: Trophy and playing in the National champel Game. Like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to count this dude out. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I can do that. And I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that he was never gonna be an elite quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: my argument is I still believe with Chubb and Hunt

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Speaker 1: and and a vastly improved defense, I think you can

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Speaker 1: win a quarterback or can win a super Bowl with

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Speaker 1: a quarterback like Baker Mayfield. I just do. I do,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I may be proven wrong. He may

577
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Speaker 1: never start in the league again. He may go to

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Speaker 1: Carolina start oh and eight and get sent to the

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Speaker 1: bench and never get another contract. I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to bet against this guy because he's

581
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: made a career of proving the doubters wrong. He's a

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Speaker 1: very focused, with determined guy. I'm mostly with you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about the super Bowl. That may be a

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Speaker 1: bridge too far from me. But Jay, we could wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this Amari Cooper. Um, you know he's gonna

586
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Speaker 1: be the guy. He was kind of vanquished from Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and I have some questions outdoors cold weather he and

588
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Speaker 1: now he's going there and he thought he was going

589
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Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson and now Jacoby precept for a full

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Speaker 1: year surprise. How's the MARII Cooper taking things in in Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: So far, he's been a good soldier. Um, I think he's.

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Speaker 1: I think he's because he's happy to be out of Dallas.

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Speaker 1: He's in a good spot. He's you know, he's Guys

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Speaker 1: will tell you that when they wear out of welcome

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00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: or they just they think it's time to leave a city.

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00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: It's almost like a career rebirth when they when they

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Speaker 1: move and go to a different place. You know, I'll

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Speaker 1: assure you that, you know, Jarvis Landry and New Orleans

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Speaker 1: will come out of the box hot. He's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a great start to the season. We saw when O.

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Speaker 1: B j. First came to Cleveland, he had some big days.

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Speaker 1: We saw what he went to the Rams, he had

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Speaker 1: some big days. I think that Amari is going to

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Speaker 1: be charged and ready to go. But to your point,

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Speaker 1: he's here in part, I think because he feels he

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Speaker 1: can do damage with the Shawn Watson as his quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And now you know he's gonna look around and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna see Jacoby brissettro in the football. And I don't

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Speaker 1: want to piss all over Jacoby Brissette. He might be great.

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Speaker 1: He's had some moments in the NFL. He's not. You know, look,

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Speaker 1: he's a backup for a reason. But he has had

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Speaker 1: some moments in the NFL where you're okay, if you

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Speaker 1: can duplicate that and and carry that out for a season.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was a year in Indie where I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was at five hundred, played most of

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Speaker 1: the season and was at or around five hundred. So

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Speaker 1: I think he's a serviceable guy. But I don't understand

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Speaker 1: how the Browns are gonna sell to the fans. We've

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Speaker 1: got a better chance with Jegobie Brissette over Baker May.

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Speaker 1: I just I just think it's a bad sell. And

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Speaker 1: and you don't when things go sideways in this town,

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Speaker 1: they go sideways really quickly. And if they with jacobeus

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Speaker 1: their schedule is one of the easiest four games starts

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Speaker 1: to a season that I can ever remember in Brown's history.

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Speaker 1: It is because the Jets are up there. I think

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Speaker 1: the Planthers they have the Jets, they have the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: and I think they have the Steelers at all. It's

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Speaker 1: Funny you say that because when I saw Jets Browns,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, sweet, we don't have to fail de Sean Rotson,

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Speaker 1: we got it. That's a win for Jet and share.

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Speaker 1: You're now calling it easy because the Jet. I mean,

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00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: it is what it is. But what I'm saying is

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Speaker 1: it's possible that a backup quarterback can guide the Browns

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Speaker 1: to a three and one start. But then it gets

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Speaker 1: real quick. It gets real hard, real quick. So if

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Speaker 1: if it's an eight game suspension and he comes back

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Speaker 1: on the field and they're three and five and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't play, remember the guy hasn't played in a long time.

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Speaker 1: And it's one thing to go through training camp, but

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Speaker 1: when real bullets start flying, the clock speeds, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't expect him to come out of the maybe

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Speaker 1: help prove me wrong. I don't expect him to come

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Speaker 1: out and throw for three fifty and three touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: his first game back. I just I don't. I think

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a process of time where he sort

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Speaker 1: of has to knock the rust off, and who knows

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Speaker 1: how long that can be. But I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: just it would be the most Browns thing ever. If

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Speaker 1: you hit with a two year suspension. It would you

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Speaker 1: horrible but for him for the Browns, yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: do you know? And there is talk j that the

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Speaker 1: league universally the owners are ticked off at at the

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Speaker 1: Browns for driving up the quarterback price with the fully

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Speaker 1: guaranteed contract. I mean, I could go down about that.

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Speaker 1: That could just be like irrelevant. But if the owners

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Speaker 1: are looking to stick it to him, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I think what the commissioner did something

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Speaker 1: that was very smart with the last contract. He sort

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Speaker 1: of took the gavel out of his own hand. I

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Speaker 1: think in part because he goofed up the Ray Rice thing.

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Speaker 1: First it was too lenient. Then I think many people

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Speaker 1: will tell you the death penalty for Rice was too stiff.

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Speaker 1: There's been some other suspensions that the league has looked at,

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Speaker 1: and the and the players and the union of book

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Speaker 1: that and like this is just ridiculously unfair. This is

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Speaker 1: overly harsh. So I think he wisely came up with

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Speaker 1: the idea that let's come up with a retired judge

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Speaker 1: that the union agrees upon and the owners in the

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Speaker 1: league office agrees upon, and that now is Sue Robinson.

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Speaker 1: So he sort of put the spotlight off of him

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Speaker 1: and onto Sue. And now she's the one that's been

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Speaker 1: leading this investigation and she's going to recommend the punishment.

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Speaker 1: But the rumor is there was a report that Sue

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Speaker 1: Robinson actually recommended to the owners that Dan Snyder sell

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Speaker 1: Washington really and they did not take that recommendation. So

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Speaker 1: that's where that's where the NFL p A now is

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Speaker 1: gonna look at anything that is that they deem overly harsh,

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Speaker 1: which I think would be anything over four games. If

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Speaker 1: it's four games, I think they take it, they move on,

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Speaker 1: and everybody goes their own way. But anything more than

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Speaker 1: four games, I think you're gonna see if it's less

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Speaker 1: than if it's four or less, that is the NFL

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Speaker 1: caving to pressure from the NFL p A that we

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Speaker 1: want to see your other investigations. If if memory search

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Speaker 1: JA there was a female investigator on the Emmett Smith

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Speaker 1: remember when Emmett not Emmett, I'm sorry, Zekelly, And she recommended,

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Speaker 1: like listen, he shouldn't be suspended. This stuff is very circumstituent,

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Speaker 1: and they suspended him anyway, you're right, and and and

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Speaker 1: so you know this investigator stuff. It could just be

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Speaker 1: a dog and pony show. Right, Hey, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a we're gonna have a woman investigator. We're gonna really

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Speaker 1: come after them hard. We're gonna and then you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it just makes no sense at all. But

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Speaker 1: Jay Crawford NBC in Cleveland, w k y C. Jake

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Speaker 1: had an incredible career. Uh, keep it going and love

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Speaker 1: the YouTube stuff. Man, thank you for taking the time. Jason.

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Speaker 1: Thanks man. Always good to see you all right, Jay