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Week 2 Pressure Watch, Deshaun Watson and Browns Drama Continues, and Lions-Bills Thursday Night Preview · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor. Thanks so
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  Speaker 2: We're heading into week two. Should we talk pressure already?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: It's the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start overreacting. There are some teams, though, that came
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  Speaker 1: into the season with extreme expectations, extreme praise for their
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  Speaker 1: off-season moves, and extreme pressure.
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  Speaker 2: And already....
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  Speaker 1: If things go sideways in week two, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to start hitting the panic button.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now. Let's start with the Rams, right?
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  Speaker 1: They've had plenty of time to reacclimate after that Australia loss.
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  Speaker 1: Coming into the season, Super Bowl favorites. We couldn't stop
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  Speaker 1: talking about all of the talent that they have.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Miles Garrett. Oh, Aaron Donald is back. Sean McVay.
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  Speaker 1: He's a genius. They have the MVP in Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: Who can stop them? Well.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are, no Miles.
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  Speaker 1: Garrett for a while, probably four weeks, maybe more, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to get Aaron Donald on the field for a Monday
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  Speaker 1: night game against the Giants, who are coming in 1-0.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, things are going to get weird if they
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  Speaker 2: drop this game. Will it be fair? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But if they lose to the Giants, after losing to
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  Speaker 1: the Niners, after all the conversation that we had about
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  Speaker 1: them in the offseason, it's going to get weird. The Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: kind of in a similar situation. They have the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl hangover. They lose their opener to the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: They lose A.J. Brown. New England needs to win. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be really tough if they start the season 0-2
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  Speaker 1: and they have to take care of the Steelers at
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  Speaker 1: home in Week 2. The Texans played well enough to win,
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  Speaker 1: aside from a couple crucial mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: And they also were playing Josh Allen. So.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we give them some grace, but they've got
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  Speaker 1: a tough start to the season. Now they have Joe
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  Speaker 1: Burrow and the Bengals, another great opponent. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to start with two losses at home, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: how good the opponents are, especially if these are the
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  Speaker 1: teams that you are going to be playing in the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: In the AFC. Now, the Falcons. Falcons are not a
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  Speaker 2: team that we were taking seriously to begin the season anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about them a lot over the summer and
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback situation. They're a disaster. However, things have gone
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  Speaker 1: from bad to worse. They lost to the Steelers and
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  Speaker 1: now they host Carolina in a key division battle. Only
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  Speaker 1: problem is they have no idea who's going to play
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  Speaker 1: quarterback because Michael Penix is still rehabbing from his knee
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  Speaker 1: injury and.
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  Speaker 2: He's not ready.
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  Speaker 1: Tua is questionable with an oblique he tweaked in practice,
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  Speaker 1: causing him to miss week one.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush, who started last week, is dealing with back spasms.
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  Speaker 2: So they may have to start undrafted rookie Jack Strand.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the Falcons are.
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  Speaker 1: There are some teams who are looking pretty awful to
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  Speaker 1: start the season, and we don't have to get too
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  Speaker 1: much more into the Falcons for too much longer.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, things are going to get weird for all
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  Speaker 2: those teams if it goes sideways.
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  Speaker 1: Already this early. I mean, that's how the NFL is.
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  Speaker 1: That's how important each game is in the NFL. The
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  Speaker 1: narrative changes very quickly. The momentum changes very quickly. Health
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  Speaker 1: is vitally important. And for all those teams, those.
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  Speaker 2: Factors have played a role already. Then there's the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: Where pressure does not apply. However, conversation is always steady.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, we knew the Browns were not going
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  Speaker 1: to be good this year, right? And we knew it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be drama with the Deshaun Watson situation
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  Speaker 1: and Shador Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: And then they got on the field. And now here
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and the Browns offense tied for the second
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  Speaker 1: least points scored in week one in a historic offensive
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  Speaker 1: week around the NFL, only managing to score one touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and one field goal in the 24-point loss to the Jags.
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  Speaker 2: It was hideous.
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  Speaker 1: And they are already looking down the barrel of another
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  Speaker 1: disappointing season. And when asked if his performance could be better,
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, if his performance could be better in week
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  Speaker 1: two and what would help avoid more boos in the
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  Speaker 1: home opener in week three, Deshaun Watson said, I think
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  Speaker 1: the media has this expectation that I'm supposed to throw
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  Speaker 1: for 400 yards and five touchdowns every week.
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  Speaker 2: Until that happens, I guess it's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: same situation.
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  Speaker 1: My job is to make sure that I'm playing well
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  Speaker 1: so that we can get a win and keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: So the question was about.
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  Speaker 1: The fans and it was asked because Cleveland fans booed
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  Speaker 1: him during the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know where to start.
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  Speaker 1: With Deshaun Watson, 400 yards and five touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: How about 250 yards and two touchdowns? How about 300 yards,
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns? Why do we even have to go there?
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  Speaker 1: You've only done that once in your entire career and
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  Speaker 1: you've still managed to have two teams give you huge paydays.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them, possibly the worst contract of all time,
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  Speaker 1: 230 million guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: You've played in 20 games.
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  Speaker 1: And won a grand total of nine in that time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think fans or media are asking for a
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  Speaker 1: lot at all. Certainly a lot hasn't been delivered. And
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  Speaker 1: the sarcasm and the conversation that's happening from Deshaun from
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  Speaker 1: the press conferences is wild, in my opinion, completely devoid
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  Speaker 1: of self-awareness. They've paid you a lot of money and
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  Speaker 1: you have not performed.
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  Speaker 2: At all. It's perfectly reasonable for fans to be upset.
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  Speaker 1: It's perfectly reasonable for the media to ask why you
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  Speaker 1: look so terrible in week one. Shador Sanders is sitting
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  Speaker 1: right there. If Shador looked that way, maybe that's a
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  Speaker 1: different conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But you're making.
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  Speaker 1: $ 230 million guaranteed. What are the expectations supposed to be?
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  Speaker 1: Are the fans overreacting? Is the media overreacting? Everyone is
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  Speaker 1: held to the standard of what they're paid and what
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  Speaker 1: the expectations are based off of what you were brought
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  Speaker 1: in to do.
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  Speaker 2: You played in 20 games. You've won nine. 400 yards
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  Speaker 2: and five touchdowns. No one's asking for that. They're just
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  Speaker 2: asking for a win, however you get it. Even if
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  Speaker 2: it's ugly. So... Yeah, Cleveland, you guys are built different,
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  Speaker 2: for real. Built different.
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  Speaker 1: God bless, and it's going to be a long season there,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Thankfully, we have a great game tonight to enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Lions at Bills, two of the toughest squads in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Both are 1-0.
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  Speaker 1: Got there quite differently, but this should be a great game,
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  Speaker 1: a great Thursday night matchup. And.
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  Speaker 1: The Bills will be debuting their new home, Highmark Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: so everything's going to feel all new and shiny. I
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  Speaker 1: am still, we're all still gathering information on what this
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  Speaker 1: new post-Sean McDermott, Joe Brady, Jesus, I almost fell. Post-Sean McDermott,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady, Bills identity is. It certainly looked great week one.
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  Speaker 1: The Lions obviously had a different experience in week one,
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  Speaker 1: squeaking out a win against the Saints after blowing a
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  Speaker 1: big lead.
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  Speaker 2: But a win is a win.
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  Speaker 1: And I think both of these teams are probably coming
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  Speaker 1: into this feeling very confident. And I think this will
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  Speaker 1: tell us a lot about two teams that we expect
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  Speaker 1: to be playing deep into the postseason. Or at least
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  Speaker 1: I do. So I'm excited to see what this looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully DJ Moore is healthy. He appeared to take a
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  Speaker 1: knock towards the end of the game, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: appeared on any injury report.
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  Speaker 2: He was limited at practice.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully that keeps rolling and he's healthy and we
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  Speaker 1: get a great Thursday night matchup from Bills and Lions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. Thanks so much for joining me.
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