What is the hotter take: Browns 8-9 or Steelers 7-10?

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2:01Football.com for each other fan presented by Xfinity, score the most reliable Wi-Fi, one price five years, guaranteed Xfinity. Imagine that. I do not believe in your heart of heart that you think the Browns are winning eight games this year. I don't believe you. How do you get my heart? You know what you do on the show? You don't really get good ratings. Let's bring in like a retired FBI guy or a cop and have them bring in a polygraph, a live detector. So you're supposed to be able to go viral. That would go viral. You're saying on the air that you truly believe with all your heart the Browns are going to win eight games while you're taking a polygraph. That I will watch. He'll be the first I text when they get to eight wins. For that, for that latent attack on my credibility is a very serious sports journalist. Ross Tucker will be the first one that hears from me. It just five and eight wins is not that far apart though. That's the part that blows my mind. You can't tell me five wins. I, when you make that type of statement,

3:01I'm expecting him to say like three wins. Also, I get it. The quarterback spots sucks. You're, I can't really argue a lot about that when you're starting Dishon Watson week one. Why did everyone act like any team that goes 500 or better? Which is the most gettable target in the NFL. For anyone that isn't the Jets or the Browns, by the way, why do they act like eight and nine is some Mount Everest or Mount Kilimanjaro. If you just have a really good team around a crappy quarterback, it happens literally every year, especially when the team has the easiest schedule in all of football both in terms of forecasting and in terms of traffic. Well, in the funny thing about if your way goes right, where you know, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay, you start off oh and two, but it's Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. Jacksonville and Tampa Bay would legitimately, if you take outside of the AFC North, those are the two hardest teams we have on the schedule. I mean, look around like the, the games that we're playing, I guess you got the Texans later on in the season. Maybe we can count that one throw that one in there, depending on how CJ Stroud is looking at the time. There's so many bad teams that we play.

4:03I just know the way it falcons, Raiders, Titans, Jets, Panthers. Like you're just, you're set up in a nice way. Saints, there's so many bad teams that we play. This isn't crazy. Also, I think, I think psychologically, a lie detector tests are too easy to fool in and of themselves. I think my idea, is that what I think it stands on? I believe in it. You just have to believe. Yeah, well, you take a breath. It's like, it's like shooting a shotgun. If you want to, you're talking awfully tough here. Is if you've beaten a polygraph, have you beaten a polygraph before? No, I haven't needed to. But I think my point is, I think it's child's play. I haven't done it. You don't have no idea how easy you are. Like there are of it is. You know, we always do the experiential shows, like Hot Ones, and I watch every bit of them, right? You do, okay. There'd be an interview, and they're eating hot wings. This, yeah, I can't, I can't miss this. I think an experiential podcast, where you've got a lie detector test on. Uh-huh. And then, and then basically a detector on your deal that tells you. And again, like, are you going to get a question here?

5:05Then you might lie about why do we need both? I'm so confused, why do we need both? Because it's impossible to be both of those things at once if you don't know what's coming. Right? Okay. Like you get three questions in a row. And that's something very, very risque. And all of a sudden, oh my God, he's into what? Oh no, his member responded to the Browns win lost. Told him what is that mean? Yeah, what does it mean? I don't really see. By the way, you know, I don't know what it means. I want to see Ken Carman's deal respond to the Browns going eight and nine this year. Because I'll tell you, mine would be rigid if that happened. I don't think you can express that. What? I don't think you can, I don't think you can express that way. Oh, maybe I just wish, maybe I just wish she didn't. Yeah, that might be more. That's more the right. I'm just, I'm the truth broker today, buddy. Is that what that is? Unbelievable description. I'm going to have freak this freak. Okay. Unbelievable description. Sticking move. Sticking move. We're having fun too. Yeah, we're no longer time at the deal.

6:06Ross did not believe it for a second though. And that's the part that I thought was really funny. Ross was on one today. I enjoyed it greatly. But the, I mean, it just, it's not, if you tell me five wins, you can't then tell me eight is some sort of ass and I and crazy thing because you're just not that far away. It's interesting. There were so many teams in the NFL that people are picking to be, to, to surprise. Because they like the roster. You responded like you said 12 wins. Yes. Yes, it's 500. It's not even 500. There's still below 500, below 500. But like 500 if yes, you're chat cheap. Pt. That is a graphic. Oh, chat. Pt. We wasted a lot of water and potentially killed generations of future Americans. And they couldn't even get the damn win lost right. But that's okay. I'm not mad about that. I'm the co-fish. That's the big battle right now. I do like going to a lot of co-fish. Going to a place where they had co-fish. You know, I have this a vibe. So like some Chinese restaurants have co-fish. Yeah, I'm about that. Yeah. You see you put a picture of a co-fish up and maybe we see what happens.

7:34Hey, I arrived almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. Okay, multi-tasker. I see. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. That's a fast-gr, I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more, I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get D-Mobile. So many reasons to join D-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com. Fastest based on analysis by Uglospeed Distant Intelligence Theatre of National Speed School Results incorporating 5G download and upload speeds

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9:34I know. Well, they still have Gerrit Wilson. You have Breeshaul. No one's backing the Jets. But the idea is that they do have... Every team has playmakers. This is what I try to tell everybody all the time. Like every team has a guy or two that you can look at and say, oh, yeah, that guy could be a pro-bore. Or that guy could be an all-pro. But I think... So the, hey, we can look past the quarterback, goes every single place but to Cleveland Browns. And that is what annoys me about this. Is I understand I'm taking a big leap here of saying the offensive line stays healthy and the rookies hit the ground running and you run the ball successfully. And the defense doesn't take a step back. I understand that there are fair amount of ifs there. Yeah. But there are teams every year who go in with that many ifs and end up having more success than people think. And so the idea that like, I'll be honest with you, this deal is falling apart with a very good regular season head coach and a veteran quarterback and Aaron Rodgers. That still feels like to me the hotter take than the Browns being eight and nine on the mildest schedule ever when no one has any expectations.

10:34But again, because it's the Browns, because it's to show on a Shador, well, there's no possible way they could work out. I feel like on the Steelers side of things, it's interesting to see how people react to the Steelers. But I think more people than not expect the Steelers to fall flat on their face at this point. Oh, right. Yeah, I'd be Ross brought up the idea. What do you do if Aaron Rodgers sucks halfway through the season with even just bench him? Because you got to find out what you have and will Howard or any of these other guys before you end up in an offseason where you desperately need a quarterback. Only reason why I'm all about that other than the obvious, it'd be hilarious to watch Steelers fans after years of saying nine and eight, ten and seven's not good enough. If they went like six and 11 with McCarthy, would be hilarious with Aaron Rodgers. They've been asking for it. They want that more Steelers fans than not want to hear. They want to see the bottom. I think they want three and 14. I don't think they do. I don't think they want six and 11. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. They want to stink with panache. They have so many players on that defensive side of the ball. Getting to three wins is going to be tough. But that's what they want. They want them to they want them to bottom out. They had the reason why they feel like they've been stuck in mediocrity land

11:36is because they haven't bottomed out at any point. They're like accepting of it. They want to wrap their arms around a three-win season. Now, all this being said, the reason why I want that more than anything is Mike McCarthy gets a last laugh. I mean, Aaron Rodgers basically called him a simple didn't this side of sling blade or forest gump. Yeah. A lot of office football, office football. Mm-hmm. Real good like a Kaiser blade. That's basically what Aaron Rodgers said about Mike McCarthy. I know. Mike McCarthy to turn around and be like, I have to bench you your career so over. That would be, I mean, that's a heel turn that even Hulk Hogan couldn't have pulled off with the N.W.O. in 1996. It'd be funny, but kind of like how we discuss to Sean Watson in Game 1, where I'm like, he's just you're just you're going down with the ship. If that's how that goes down, if he's throwing a million picks, you just kind of you make him you make him just sit in it. Same thing's going to happen with Aaron Rodgers. Stewards are going to make him they they'll throw them out there for way longer than necessary. 216 474 0092. What is a hotter take? The Browns at eight and nine or the Steelers at seven and 10 when we come back to time. Newshoes, new clothes, brand new grade.

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