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Rich Paul: LeBron Won’t Be Rushed; NFL Players Push for Grass Fields; Browns QB Battle · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. The Lebron Sweepstakes roll on another day. Another
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  Speaker 1: quote from a big player in the Lebron camp on
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  Speaker 1: his decision. Rich Paul gave the latest on the situation.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, We're not going to be rushed. He
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  Speaker 1: said this on the latest podcast episode of Game Over
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  Speaker 1: with Max Kellerman and Rich Paul. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be rushed. It's his choice to make him. When he
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  Speaker 1: makes the choice, he'll make it. There's been several people
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  Speaker 1: to call and say, hey, Rich, is there anything more
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  Speaker 1: we should be doing, we could be doing, And my
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  Speaker 1: answer is no, we don't need to go above and
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  Speaker 1: beyond about anything. We understand it. It's clear and the
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  Speaker 1: message has been sent. This is starting to become incredibly
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  Speaker 1: interesting to me because as the Lebron decisions have gone,
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  Speaker 1: as far as spectacles go, they have decreased in the intensity.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously, the decision to go to the Heat was
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  Speaker 1: a huge production and we know how that went. And
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  Speaker 1: then his decision to leave the Heat and go back
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland was a production, but not on quite the
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  Speaker 1: same level as it was when he left Cleveland to
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  Speaker 1: go to Miami, and then his announcement to go from
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland to LA was basically kind of just like a
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  Speaker 1: press release. So it is interesting to me that they
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  Speaker 1: are now sort of upping the intensity and the anxiety
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  Speaker 1: about where he's going to go, considering that he has
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  Speaker 1: been scaling these things down. I did think that if
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  Speaker 1: he was going to leave LA, that he would have
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  Speaker 1: already had his choice made and pretty much know where
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  Speaker 1: it was that he was going to go. But Ridge
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  Speaker 1: Paul speaking on his behalf and basically saying chill because
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver said he is kind of tired of waiting,
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  Speaker 1: that they can't make the schedule until he announces it,
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  Speaker 1: which is what he said at Fanatics Thursday, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: at the boardroom CNBC Sport event. That sort of added
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  Speaker 1: kind of to the intensity of it, Adam Silver saying
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  Speaker 1: that they can't make the schedule and you know, it
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  Speaker 1: can't be rushed until he decides, but he does kind
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  Speaker 1: of need to decide. I mean, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: have huge implications on both conferences. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: have huge implications on any of the teams that he
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  Speaker 1: was rumored to go to, and being that any of
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  Speaker 1: these situations will have championship expectations, the sooner that he
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  Speaker 1: gets in the building and gets working with those other teammates,
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  Speaker 1: the better. So I don't really know why there isn't
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  Speaker 1: an announcement, like what is there to rush. I'm quite
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  Speaker 1: positive that they have been talking about this before this point,
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  Speaker 1: so the fact that the decision hasn't been made is
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  Speaker 1: just kind of interesting to me. It's interesting how his
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  Speaker 1: camp is handling it. Again, I do hope that he
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  Speaker 1: goes to the Heat. I do think that's the one
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  Speaker 1: that makes the most sense. So I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: they could possibly be working out, but we are all
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  Speaker 1: waiting to find out where Lebron is going to finish
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  Speaker 1: his career. So the World Cup proved that Americans have
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  Speaker 1: an avdalape for soccer and that all NFL stadiums with
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  Speaker 1: turf could have grass if they wanted to. So this
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  Speaker 1: has been a huge conversation in the NFL for a while.
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  Speaker 1: George Kittle has been leading the charge. Plenty of guys
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  Speaker 1: have piled on now that they've seen real grass stadiums,
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  Speaker 1: from MetLife to Sofi During the World Cup. The NFLPA
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  Speaker 1: is called for the league to fully adopt natural services
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  Speaker 1: for three years, and the first year executive director JC
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  Speaker 1: Tretter has embraced the issue. The NFLPA leaned into the
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  Speaker 1: movement over the weekend with hashtag worth the cost the players,
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  Speaker 1: calling on league stakeholders to invest in player safety and
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  Speaker 1: universally ditch artificial turf so natural grass is not out
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  Speaker 1: of reach. According to Jonathan Taylor, prioritizing players shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: either hashtag or worth the cost Raiders. He tweeted that
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  Speaker 1: Raiders owner Mark Davis voice to support for grass fields
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  Speaker 1: as well. He said, it was number one having grass.
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  Speaker 1: There was no way I was going to build a
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  Speaker 1: stadium or anything else to play on artificial turf. I
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  Speaker 1: just always felt the safety issue number one. And I
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  Speaker 1: grew up around football and the grass and the mud
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  Speaker 1: and smell those uniforms after the game that you knew
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  Speaker 1: a football game was played on. So it was very
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  Speaker 1: important to me that we had grass. Listen. I am
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  Speaker 1: not an NFL player O recently this has been very
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  Speaker 1: important to NFL players. They have talked about this for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time about how injuries and turf play
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  Speaker 1: a big role how they enjoy playing on natural surfaces,
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  Speaker 1: and MetLife Stadium, which hosted eight World Cup matches, had
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  Speaker 1: to have a grass field because of the FIFA requirements,
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  Speaker 1: so they hosted eight World Cup matches on a grass field.
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  Speaker 1: Due to FIFA requirements, they change the playing surface from
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  Speaker 1: a synthetic turf that they have for NFL games to
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  Speaker 1: grasp So this can happen and a number of players
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  Speaker 1: have dealt with serious lower body body injuries over the
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  Speaker 1: last six years. Malik neighbors towards ACL Aaron Rodgers, Torus Achilles,
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  Speaker 1: Serving Shepherd, torn ACL, Wandell Robinson, torn ACL, Kyle Fuller,
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  Speaker 1: torn ACL, Nick Bosta, torn Aco all at MetLife Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: So that is a huge place for scrutiny. When it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the turf, the astro turf, the players do
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  Speaker 1: not like playing on it. They feel like they'll be
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  Speaker 1: safer playing on a natural surface. I'm with the players,
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  Speaker 1: like if they're saying that this is harder to play on,
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  Speaker 1: it's rougher on their bodies, it's it has a direct
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  Speaker 1: correlation with injuries, then I think that they should change it.
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  Speaker 1: These are billionaires, they can afford to do it. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL absolutely can afford to do it at every single stadium.
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  Speaker 1: If it means you have to have stadiums that are
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  Speaker 1: indoors in certain places, well then that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But like player safety has to be number one. You're
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  Speaker 1: adding more games, You're saying constantly that player safety is
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  Speaker 1: a priority. Will show that, do that then, and they
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  Speaker 1: are telling you what they need so the league can
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  Speaker 1: afford it, the owners can afford it. They need to
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  Speaker 1: get it done. And MetLife Stadium was a great example
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  Speaker 1: of that movement being very important. And I think they
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  Speaker 1: need to listen to the players in this case. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the Browns. Browns quarterback situation is always
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  Speaker 1: something to behold and this is going to be continue
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  Speaker 1: to be a conversation over the off season. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to be a conversation throughout the season depending
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  Speaker 1: on how the Browns play. But Shador Sanders is competing
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  Speaker 1: for the starting quarterback position with the worst contract holder
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history, to Shan Watson. This is for starting
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  Speaker 1: job for a franchise that has had more than forty
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks since the franchise returned in nineteen ninety nine. The Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: for example, I've had twelve since nineteen ninety nine. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Kay Cabot, a highly respected journalist, caught up with Shador
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend and has always got an amazing SoundBite.
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  Speaker 1: Shador said, quote, we're both trying to be the best
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  Speaker 1: version of ourselves a wee could be, So we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to let anything get in between that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: the level of respect that we all in the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: room have for each other, and we're not really emotional
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to these things that we can't control.
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  Speaker 1: We mainly focus on and thrive on getting better in
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  Speaker 1: the workdays. Like something he's doing, I ask if he
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  Speaker 1: likes something I do, then he askeds a conversation and
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  Speaker 1: that's what's most effective. I think Shador's handling this situation
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  Speaker 1: better than he could possibly be expected to. This is
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  Speaker 1: a BS situation. In my opinion, the Deshaun Watson contract
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  Speaker 1: is one of the worst in the history of sports.
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  Speaker 1: The trade was one of the worst in the history
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  Speaker 1: of sports, and Chador is involved was involved, not through
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  Speaker 1: any of his doing directly the more interesting draft situations
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL draft, but he showed
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  Speaker 1: that he can play and what my issue with these
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  Speaker 1: teams always is is that it comes down to politics,
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to contracts, and it doesn't come down
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  Speaker 1: to the actual talent and development. And when you are
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  Speaker 1: a good organization, you are not worried about those things.
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  Speaker 1: When you are a bad organization like the Cleveland Browns,
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  Speaker 1: you're always worried about those things. And that's why this
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the Shaun Watson exists in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: because they're trying to make up for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has not lived up to that ridiculous deal
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  Speaker 1: that they chose to sign, and now Shador is going
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  Speaker 1: to have to bear the brunt of that, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's incredibly unfair. I think it's very stupid when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to who is actually going to be the
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, and it puts both of them in a
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  Speaker 1: bad situation. But that's what the Browns always continue do,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to continue to get quotes from both
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  Speaker 1: of them saying how they're both locked in and they're
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  Speaker 1: a group and if you have more than one quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you have no quarterback, and they really should have one
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and shad Or Sanders should be the starter. And
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  Speaker 1: if something goes wrong, then Deshaun Watson could step in.
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  Speaker 1: But Deshaun has shown nothing over the time that he
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  Speaker 1: is there, that he is going to be available, that
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  Speaker 1: he is going to be healthy, and that he is
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to be the quarterback that is
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  Speaker 1: going to take them to the next level. Sador is
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  Speaker 1: a young quarterback. It takes development, it takes time, it
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  Speaker 1: takes investment, and it takes confidence and the Browns are
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  Speaker 1: doing none of that in the situation. But, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: not surprising because they do this every single time. For
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