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Did LeBron Play His Final Game and Can the Sixers Continue with Embiid · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: Play Joy Taylor. Well, it seems we may have seen
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  Speaker 1: the last of Lebron James. The Lakers were swept by
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  Speaker 1: ok see. I was expecting them to go five, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a sweep and it wasn't for a lack
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  Speaker 1: of trying. LA did lead Game two and Game three
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  Speaker 1: at halftime and was leading Game four to start the
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  Speaker 1: final quarter. Lebron carried the Lake Show without any Luca
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  Speaker 1: or Austin Reeves in the first rounds and kept the
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  Speaker 1: team competitive against the defending champs and the likely back
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  Speaker 1: to back league MVP in Shay Gildriss. Not too shabby
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  Speaker 1: for a man who turned forty one this season and
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  Speaker 1: in his twenty second season of his career. And I
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  Speaker 1: like to add with all the postseason games and the Olympic,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's three extra seasons of basketball that he
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  Speaker 1: has played, so we're looking at around actually twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty I'm sorry, twenty four to twenty five seasons
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  Speaker 1: of basketball with all those extra games, So he has
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time playing basketball and talking to
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  Speaker 1: reporters podium, and he bid leave the door opens to
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  Speaker 1: playing next season. He said, I don't know, honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: obviously still fresh with us losing. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the future holds for me as it
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  Speaker 1: stands right now. I think I said last year after
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  Speaker 1: we lost in Minnesota that I'll go back and recalibrate
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  Speaker 1: with my family and talk to them and spend some
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  Speaker 1: time with them, and when the time comes, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: guys will know what I decide to do. As for
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  Speaker 1: his current team, Lakers President of basketball Operations Rob Polinka said,
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  Speaker 1: of course, any team, including ours, would love to have
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James on our roster. That's a blessing in itself,
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  Speaker 1: just with what he does. Look Lebron is. To say
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  Speaker 1: he's an all time great is actually, I think a
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  Speaker 1: disservice to what Lebron has contributed to not does basketball,
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  Speaker 1: but to sports, to entertainment, to stardom. He has been
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  Speaker 1: in the public eye since he was sixteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I grew up on Michael Jordan. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: going to have an affinity for Michael. He made me
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  Speaker 1: fall in love with basketball in a lot of ways
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  Speaker 1: made me fall in love with sports. But what Lebron
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  Speaker 1: has been able to do, for the length at which
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  Speaker 1: Lebron has been able to do it, sometimes I really
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  Speaker 1: think we might be taking it for granted. He's been
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  Speaker 1: in the public eye since he was sixteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: to carry all of that, to carry the weights of
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  Speaker 1: the league, to take care of his body, to be
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  Speaker 1: as disciplined as he is, available as he is, focus
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  Speaker 1: as he is, to handle the media the way that
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  Speaker 1: he has to scrutiny. I mean, I started my career
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  Speaker 1: in Miami when the Big Three were there, and to
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  Speaker 1: this day, I've never experienced anything or seen anything in
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  Speaker 1: sports as controversial as the temperatures high as it was,
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  Speaker 1: the folk, the hate, the energy towards that team. It
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  Speaker 1: really has not been duplicated in my almost twenty years
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  Speaker 1: in sports media. He is the pinnacle of what a
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  Speaker 1: superstar can be could be. I don't want to say should,
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  Speaker 1: because I think we all have different experiences. But it's
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  Speaker 1: really difficult to put into wards what Lebron has contributed
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  Speaker 1: to this league. And I'll do this speech again if
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  Speaker 1: he ends up actually retiring, which I don't know. That
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  Speaker 1: this will be his last year. He has been able
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  Speaker 1: to play with Bronnie. He's been able to play in
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  Speaker 1: playoff games with Bronnie, So I don't know what else.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have anything to prove and hasn't had anything
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  Speaker 1: to prove for a long time. But he is still
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  Speaker 1: playing at a level which he could play again next year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to run through all his accolades. We
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  Speaker 1: all know what they are. Most points scored, all time,
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  Speaker 1: most points scored, and playoffs. I just said I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna run through them, and now I'm running through them.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't want to run through them.
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  Speaker 1: We all know what he's done. That he plays another year,
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  Speaker 1: if that's what he wants to do and what his
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  Speaker 1: family wants to do. When it comes to athletes retiring,
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  Speaker 1: I always say play until you have no juice left,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't get another go at it. There's only
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  Speaker 1: one time in your life, one chapter in your life,
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  Speaker 1: where you're capable, physically capable of playing professional sports. But
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  Speaker 1: I do know one thing. We will miss lebron If
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  Speaker 1: he announces that this is his last season, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: miss him. I think the league isn't a good place.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in a great place. As far as someone
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  Speaker 1: to take on the torch from Lebron James, there is
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  Speaker 1: no heir apparent to me at this particular juncture. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of great names are gonna get thrown out,
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  Speaker 1: but if we're talking about the scrutiny level, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the stardom, the crossover power, the ability to be
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  Speaker 1: in the public eye twenty four to seven that I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's in that space yet. And part
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  Speaker 1: of that is also winning. So the expectations have to
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  Speaker 1: match that. It'll be very interesting off season for Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James and for the NBA. Another NBA superstar with the
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  Speaker 1: potentially monumental off season is Joel Embiich. So his team
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  Speaker 1: also got swept and he was in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the series with injuries. No surprise there. Philly fans don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. It might be the end for Joel Embiid.
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  Speaker 1: He had plenty of positive things to say about Philly
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  Speaker 1: and the team. He said, I'm going into summer. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I got to recover from everything that's been happening. That's first,
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  Speaker 1: and after that, just being able to work out which
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done in a couple of years, so that's
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  Speaker 1: exciting and going to the summer having the chance to
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  Speaker 1: be more prepared with everything body wise in my game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to be here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if I'm going to be here, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever happens happens for me. I'm excited about getting back
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  Speaker 1: to myself. I mean, I don't know how Philly, Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Sics seventy six are trying to do it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how they do it every year. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: thing with this process and the injuries. And I really
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  Speaker 1: like Joel Embiid. I think he is a fascinating player.
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  Speaker 1: I think he really cares. I've seen the passion that
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  Speaker 1: he displays, and you know, he's a physical, just beast
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  Speaker 1: like he's an incredible physical talent. Man. Like, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: we just have to admit that availability is a part
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  Speaker 1: of his story, like it just is. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: consistent storyline through this whole process that's gone over thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years in Philadelphia, five general manager managers ago. It started
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of injured players between Ben Simmons and Markelle
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  Speaker 1: Fultz and James Harden and Embiid. Like Embiide has played
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  Speaker 1: in four hundred and ninety seven possible regular season games
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  Speaker 1: in his career, he's missed four hundred and ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: And when it comes to Nick Nurse and what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen with him. In three seasons, em Biid has
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  Speaker 1: played in one hundred and fourteen of two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty four games. That's forty two percent of the time
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  Speaker 1: that he's available. That's star player like that. That's an
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  Speaker 1: impossible number to overcome. If you're any coach and any team,
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  Speaker 1: if the team is built around him and he's only
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  Speaker 1: he's not available, he's only available forty two percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time, that's a really tough thing to overcome. It's
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  Speaker 1: basically impossible. I don't know how you rely on that.
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  Speaker 1: And some players are just injury prone and whether that
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  Speaker 1: has to do with you know, how you train your
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  Speaker 1: body type luck, how you're eating, how you're recovering. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm out there with him, I can't tell you.
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  Speaker 1: And some players just have it, some players don't, and
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  Speaker 1: some of this is just luck. But at this point
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  Speaker 1: it is a part of who Joel Embiid is as
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  Speaker 1: a player. That he is not going to be available
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  Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how that affects trades, how you build around that, or
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  Speaker 1: how you continue on with the same system around him
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  Speaker 1: as the star, and that something that you just have
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  Speaker 1: to account for. It's just really difficult and another disappointing
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  Speaker 1: season for the Sixers and a great player, but you
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  Speaker 1: have to just include the injuries when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: Towell and b So finally, I want to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little football the Cleveland Browns. Now, if you know me,
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  Speaker 1: you know I have a very low opinion of the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns as an organization. For pretty much the entirety
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  Speaker 1: of my life. I have been talking about how bad
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns are, and they find themselves in another
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  Speaker 1: quarterback conundrum. Deshaun Watson obviously is coming off of injury.
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  Speaker 1: Sure Sanders is expected to be the Browns Week one
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  Speaker 1: starter after a solid finish to the season, But now
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  Speaker 1: there's another quarterback controversy because through voluntary workouts, sixth round
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  Speaker 1: rookie Taylan Green has some measurables that are raising some eyebrows,
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  Speaker 1: including head coach Todd Mounkin. He is six six two
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  Speaker 1: thirty runs a four three six point forty and legendary
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  Speaker 1: NFL report. Mary K. Cabots asked the rookie who he
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  Speaker 1: compared himself to, and he said, to be honest, no,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, of course, Lamar, but he's not sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen is close, but I'm two thirty. He's like
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  Speaker 1: to sixty. My dad, says Randall Cunningham. Ish, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really think there's anyone like me, not like in a
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  Speaker 1: cockyway or anything, just some confidence. There's nobody that moves
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  Speaker 1: like me that's as tall as me. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Like with the Cleveland Browns, they've been horrible as long
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  Speaker 1: as I have been watching them, with the exception of
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  Speaker 1: like two seasons. They change quarterbacks and coaches like they
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  Speaker 1: change socks. But listen, your team needs stability. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in quarterback competitions. If you have a quarter if
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  Speaker 1: you have more than one quarterback, you have no quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You should go into a season knowing who your quarterback is.
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  Speaker 1: If you're competing, very very very very very very rarely
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  Speaker 1: are you going to have a situation where this works
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  Speaker 1: out positively. The quarterback is the leader of the team.
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  Speaker 1: Says that for the offense, it that's the style of play.
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  Speaker 1: It means first team reps with the first team receivers
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  Speaker 1: and offensive line. All of this is like a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: ballet of physicality. And we don't know who your quarterback
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  Speaker 1: is and you're trying to decide you're splitting first team reps.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a whole Mayhem situation. I understand they paid
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson a ton of guaranteed money. That is your fault,
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. You made that mistake and it's probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest blunders in league history. Two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty million guaranteed. You go with sure like that's that's what.
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  Speaker 1: That's my opinion. I don't know why we're even letting
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  Speaker 1: rumors like this start, but it's the Cleveland Browns, so
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  Speaker 1: it's not that particularly surprising. But again, will be a
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  Speaker 1: story that we watched throughout the NFL off season. Thank
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