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Andrew Siciliano Discusses Big Jumps Needed in Week 2 | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to kickoff continues. The Jaguars entertaining the Cleveland Browns
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  Speaker 1: in Week two, and the new voice of the Browns
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  Speaker 1: is a face and voice that you know very well
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  Speaker 1: as you're a football fan. Andrews Sciliano with us. Great
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  Speaker 1: to see you. I've never met you, which is odd.
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  Speaker 1: We've been around the league. You've been around the league forever.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here for We've never really crossed paths. But
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  Speaker 1: it's great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jp, it's great to be with you. Great to connect.
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to the pod yesterday. You got to
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  Speaker 2: tell Prisco to calm down, man, I mean, like he
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  Speaker 2: gets so fired up. I thought Tony was going to
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  Speaker 2: go after him on some of their some of their
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  Speaker 2: conversations there. But it's good to connect like this and
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  Speaker 2: I will certainly see you on the field. Hopefully the
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  Speaker 2: rain stays away. Trevor bank Field coming up on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I usually just play referee on Monday. Let Tony
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  Speaker 1: and Pete do their thing and stay the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of the way and throw it a commercial. That's the
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  Speaker 1: safest place for me.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. I thought you did a great job referering.
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  Speaker 3: You stayed out of the way they were going at it.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I've never heard Pete happy with
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  Speaker 2: play calling or tackling in my entire life.
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  Speaker 3: So if he had been on Monday like, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been news.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you should listen every Monday, because that's for
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  Speaker 1: the last ten years how it's been with Pete. All right, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with the Browns defense. They gave up some
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  Speaker 1: points last week, but they've got every level covered. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they've got talent upfront, obviously with Garrett the linebacker's fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: They've got corner play. What is it about this Browns
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  Speaker 1: defense that they'll be able to bounce back right most
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  Speaker 1: of this season? That seems like the strength of this team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they will. I think that's the one
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  Speaker 3: thing they could rely on.
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  Speaker 2: I think they would need considering the offensive struggles Week one,
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  Speaker 2: and who knows how quickly they can get back on
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  Speaker 2: track there. They're going to need the defense to collectively
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  Speaker 2: stand on their head. I guess, for lack of a
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  Speaker 2: better description, I think in September to get some wins
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  Speaker 2: in especially coming up against the Jaguars as well. They
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  Speaker 2: had the sack early on the first possession from Dalvin
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  Speaker 2: Tomlinson where he just ran through Dak Prescott's chest. But
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  Speaker 2: then you know, a couple of minutes later on the
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  Speaker 2: next possession, they got the busted coverage there and Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Cooks give Dak credit, he beat the blitz. He loft
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  Speaker 2: at it to the end zone and they got the
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  Speaker 2: touchdown there. Denzel Ward lamentev this week that he probably
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  Speaker 2: could have had two or three picks. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: work on the jugs machine, joked that he might play
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  Speaker 2: catch with reporters on the field before the game because
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  Speaker 2: they need those turnovers, they need those field flipping plays,
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  Speaker 2: and they need to give the offense some short fields.
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  Speaker 2: They did give the offense a short field on the
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  Speaker 2: initial drive thanks to special teams of Jalen Darden punt
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  Speaker 2: return that set them up for the long Justin Hopkins
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  Speaker 2: field goal, but they need more of those. They actually
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  Speaker 2: did force some three and outs, not only in the
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  Speaker 2: first but in the third quarter, and there seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be at least a little bit of a momentum shift
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  Speaker 2: possibility in the third after some of those three and outs,
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  Speaker 2: but the offense couldn't do its part.
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  Speaker 1: When you have Miles Garrett, you always have a chance. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where from guys, I mean, it seems like he's at
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  Speaker 1: some point of this continues. He might already be in
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  Speaker 1: Canton at some point, but he's solidifying his case. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're starting a defense, I know you're a little
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  Speaker 1: biased now, but would you rather have Parsons or whether
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  Speaker 1: you would you rather have Garrett or at that point
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  Speaker 1: they're pretty close together at the same point, he's right
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  Speaker 1: there at the top of his game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question for which there is no
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  Speaker 2: wrong answer. I think, Miles, You're right, is destined to
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  Speaker 2: make the short drive down to Canton. Actually, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if this has changed, but a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: Miles told me that he won't go to Canton until
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  Speaker 2: he's in. And that wasn't an arrogant thing. It was
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  Speaker 2: more like the much like in hockey, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to touch the Stanley Cup until I win the Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup kind of thing. Because Stefanski had in the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: i think before the Hall of Fame game, had organized
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  Speaker 2: kind of a field trip tour of the building and
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  Speaker 2: he said, nope, I don't want to go, and Stefanski
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  Speaker 2: honored his request. Now Micah is younger, right, So Micah
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  Speaker 2: is in year three, so I think just from a
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  Speaker 2: contractual standpoint, he's still on a rookie deal, you would
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  Speaker 2: probably take Micah. But there is no wrong answer because
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  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett is inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ceciliana with us the voice of the Cleveland Browns
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I mean, there's a lot going on around
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  Speaker 1: to Shawn's It's been a lot going around to Shawn
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  Speaker 1: since he showed up in Cleveland. But he's on the
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  Speaker 1: field now. It didn't look great last week for him, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Is the old DeShawn still in there? And how as
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  Speaker 1: a player do you find your way back to what
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  Speaker 1: got you to this point?
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question and JP I actually had a
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  Speaker 2: nearly identical question for Kevin Stefanski's Sunday morning on our
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  Speaker 2: pregame show in Cleveland. I went back to Week ten
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  Speaker 2: last year, which was the last healthy performance, although he
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  Speaker 2: really wasn't healthy. We find out he had a broken
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  Speaker 2: bone behind a scapula and he had a high ankle
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  Speaker 2: sprain in that game. But Week ten last year, he
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  Speaker 2: was fourteen or fourteen in the second half on the
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  Speaker 2: road at Baltimore, and they beat at that point what
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  Speaker 2: was a juggernaut of a Ravens team on the road.
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  Speaker 2: He played a perfect half, rallied him back the old
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  Speaker 2: Deshaun scrambles and he was great. I said that De'shaun
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  Speaker 2: that you saw week ten. Have you seen that DeShawn
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  Speaker 2: this summer?
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  Speaker 3: And he was adamant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, we did not see that Deshaun week one
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  Speaker 2: against the Cowboys. Now, I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back and watch the first two possessions
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  Speaker 2: against the Cowboys, quick drops getting the ball out, He
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  Speaker 2: had a drop or two. He had a ball off
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  Speaker 2: of Amari Cooper's chest in which Kayln Carson, the rookie
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  Speaker 2: fifth round pick at awake, blatantly pass interfered blatantly. It
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  Speaker 2: should have been called for interference, and the refs gave
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  Speaker 2: the rookie the call there over the veteran. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that if they get the flag there all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden we see a better to Shaun at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying there were glimpses, but the bad far outweighed
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  Speaker 2: the good. You have the very interesting dynamic here of
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski kind of tearing the offense down to the
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  Speaker 2: Studs in the off season to bring in Ken Dorsey,
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  Speaker 2: and they went a lot more five wide, they went
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  Speaker 2: a lot more empty. You know, can you establish a
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  Speaker 2: run game that way? It is very much a work
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  Speaker 2: in progress, and I know the people in Cleveland are
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  Speaker 2: banging the table for well, this is evidence that you
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  Speaker 2: needed to play everybody in the preseason. I would push
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  Speaker 2: back strongly against that. Having worked with the Rams and
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  Speaker 2: Sean mcvagh for all these years. He plays nobody their
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  Speaker 2: fine Week one.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Far more an issue of everybody was injured during training
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  Speaker 2: camp and that lack of cohesion from those injuries I
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  Speaker 2: think was evident Week one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I gotta say, you sound like a hometown
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  Speaker 1: announcer calling for past interference calls already.
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  Speaker 2: Well on League one was bad. You got to remember
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  Speaker 2: I have been a fan of the Brown since I
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  Speaker 2: was eleven years old. So it's also going to take
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  Speaker 2: probably some pumping of breaks on game day JP, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't go too overboard with the fandom.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ceciliano with us Mari Cooper. Jerry Judy added to
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  Speaker 1: the mixing. Jok who's out this week. He put up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns against the Jags last year. But
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  Speaker 1: Cooper and Judy having those two guys out there, guys
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  Speaker 1: who played some football at a high level, where did
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  Speaker 1: they rank in your mind as duos in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Jags just saw the best duo in the league in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion last week in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the duo conversation is interesting because if healthy,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to go against, say like digs In Addison,
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  Speaker 2: although he's in only his second season up there in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: or the guys you saw last week, Tyreek Hill and
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Wattle. I don't know how anyone's better than those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Pookinakua Cooper Cup here down the street from where I
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  Speaker 2: sit right now. Amari Cooper is special. You know his
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  Speaker 2: age begins with a three now, so he's getting up there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know he still had two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: five yards on Christmas Eve last year in Houston to
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  Speaker 2: rewrite the Browns record book. He had a fantastic season,
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  Speaker 2: back to back one thousand yard years. Judy gives him
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  Speaker 2: a different kind of weapon. He did look good. His
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  Speaker 2: one drop came when he got blasted by a safety
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  Speaker 2: this past week. But the Djoku loss is huge. He
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  Speaker 2: rarely comes off the field. But the bigger issue is
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  Speaker 2: that Jordan Nakins was the only other tight end on
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  Speaker 2: the roster. Giovanni Ricci, who is more of an h back,
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  Speaker 2: got hurt in camp, got hurt in the preseason, and
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  Speaker 2: so Cameron Latout, the former Niner three round pick, is
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  Speaker 2: on the practice squad, had to bring in Jeff Swain
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 3: They only had one other tight end last week. That's
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  Speaker 3: it period.
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  Speaker 2: So Jordan Nakins and Deshaun Watson, that familiarity from back
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  Speaker 2: in Houston. That's why he's here to begin with. He
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  Speaker 2: is going to have to see a bigger role, a
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  Speaker 2: much bigger but it is certainly an issue of concern.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The one good thing here for the Browns, or the
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  Speaker 2: one little bit of optimism, is that when they put
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  Speaker 2: the four guys on defense on IR this week, Ndjoku
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  Speaker 2: did not go on IR. So that seems to suggest
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  Speaker 2: that his return could be sooner than was feared initially.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Siciliano, a voice of the Browns Tough Division AFC
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  Speaker 1: North Ravens Steelers, will see what goes on with them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is just a Browns team that can compete.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a team that's ready for the big time?
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  Speaker 2: Going into last week, everyone said yes, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 2: not only ready to compete, but ready to compete for
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans. Obviously, Week one that was a punch in
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  Speaker 2: the mouth, and that goes without saying nor amplifying, and
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  Speaker 2: nothing I could say, you know makes it worse week
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  Speaker 2: one to week two. Every coach will tell you. I
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  Speaker 2: think Doug said it this week right. Maybe I'm mixing
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  Speaker 2: up my pressers. You see, the biggest jump week one
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  Speaker 2: to week two. They need a big jump. Week two
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  Speaker 2: to me is the truth. Serum Week one is a liar.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll find out Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff as always, Man, nice to visit with you.
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  Speaker 1: Congrats on the gig and good luck with the earthquakes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you were in LA and the day we
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  Speaker 1: tape this you were shaking like twenty minutes before, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was a five point one JP. We haven't had
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  Speaker 2: a five point one in a little bit. It was
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the strength of the earthquake, not to bore
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  Speaker 2: people in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: You guys get tropical storms. I know.
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  Speaker 2: It was the duration It lasted about a good ten seconds.
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  Speaker 3: It was one where we go, oh that's an earthquake.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that isn't stopping.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why this one was a bit different. But
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  Speaker 2: every everyone's good here, life goes on.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to hear it. We'll see you on Sunday, Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks good