They'd have a 97% chance to make the playoffs for the first time since 2002, but a loss against the Jets would mean only a 50 50 shot to reach the postseason heading into Week 17.

Look, it kind of feels unfair, Teddy, but it's stuff that all these teams are having to deal with with the co vid list right now for this team.

If you're on that team today, how are you handling, combining the excitement of what is right at your doorstep and then the disappointment of what's happening with their receivers today?

I think you just recognize realize what this year is.

I mean, other teams have had to deal with this, and now you we have to deal with this and I said this at the start of the year.

This championship, won by the team for this year, will probably the most mentally tough team I've ever been around forever ever seen because of everything you've got to deal with.

It's just a part of the journey along the 2020 NFL football.

Steven.

This is the Cleveland Browns part of it.

And the good teams.

The championship teams still find a way the Jets have lost Quentin Williams for the year.

You should still to be able to run the football.

Rex.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

And I think it's a big moment for Baker Mayfield because Baker has been absolutely terrific this year.

I mean, you wanna give credit?

It's like, When did this change?

Well, it changed when they names to fancy the head coach.

What he did is he put a system in that fits his personnel perfectly.

And I'm talking about his entire personnel, not just the quarterback, but he's got to phenomenal running, running backs and what we're gonna we're gonna build around them.

And by the way, are quarterbacks really good?

If he's got clear vision, how is he going to get clear vision?

We're gonna move the pocket, we're gonna run, play action.

And that's what it flipped overnight.

But baker to me, I see a different guy.

I see a guy that really grew up and and it started not, I mean, when when he was on our show and and and I talked to him like, Man, this guy's getting it.

And it wasn't just lip service.

And so today he's got to be the guy out front saying, Dude, it doesn't matter, man.

We got, We got ourselves were built for this.

We have a lot of good players.

They're bringing up some guys on the practice.

What?

How many times guys do we sit back and say I know is the coach it's like and we all experience it.

Every single person in this room is gonna play a role in us being successful, and we say it from jump every every, uh, practice squad player and all that, and it always has to happen Now.

Is it weird that it's happening right now in the way it is?

Absolutely.

But this team don't flinch.

Baker.

Get it done, put it on your shoulders and get it done.

But I think they don't have to change much.

That's like the irony of this whole thing.

It's mental toughness.

It's, you know, Baker.

Yes, it's all that, but this offense is already built and set up for them.

Thio play a football game just this way.

I think Kevin Stefanski is like You know what?

This will be a fun game.

Well, you guys a quarterback got to know you may have tow line up Some of these receivers, like, literally tell them where to go because they don't know what to do and listen.

As a quarterback, people don't realize this when you study your game plan, you spend.

I'm talking mawr time on the run, game rules in the run, game checks than you do on the past game stuff.

The past stuff's easy.

But Baker Mayfield at the line of scrimmage because the other team is gonna know you're running the ball.

Your your audibles at the line of scrimmage.

All this stuff.

You hear it now with no crowd, you know, kill, kill, alert, alert Can can like all that kind of stuff, it's on Baker.

Like whether these runs work or not, it's gonna be on Baker and Stefanski.

How they how they sort of scheme it up.

I'm excited to watch it.

This is ironically, like this is a game you shouldn't wanna watch.

This is a game I love to watch.

Randy, I'm actually curious.

Not that you have a whole lot of experience on the practice squad.

But before these practice squad receivers that have gotten pulled up, what do you think this is like for them?

Like, what's a normal week?

Like for practice squad receiver?

That's different if you're gonna be active.

Well, I think that, Ah, lot of the football fans need to understand what a practice squad, the practice squad player Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are their best days.

That's the days that they get paid the guys on the 53 man roster.

They get paid on Sunday.

So less than 24 hours when the coach comes in and start calling guys from the practice squad A Europe this week, Europe this week, Europe this week and then you heard more talking about their walk through this morning.

The Cleveland Browns cannot go into a game like this where they think that this game is gonna favorite favorite them.

They cannot stick their toe in the water.

They have to be able to dive in.

And Matt, there's a name that you kept naming.

It's the fastest, the fanciest, the fancy.

You think about what type of job coach the fancy has done this year.

You think how they started out.

You think about after the injury, the O B J.

What the club and what the team looked like.

Now you're sitting there for taking your whole wide receiver corps.

So you're talking about Coach of the Year, which interfere and gave Brian floors from love a couple minutes ago.

But you're talking about coaches coach players play.

This is a big game for the Cleveland Brown coach Stefanski.

Regardless of the two headed monster they have back there, he has to have a complete game.

Special teams, defense and offense has toe have a complimentary game today.

The Jets are still riding high for a couple weeks ago, where everybody counted them out.

So do not give the New York Jets any type of hope to get into this game today.

I think all the eyes is on Coast Opinsky to be able to win this game.

Yeah, teams been hot five and one in the last six could get their 11th win for the first time since 1994.

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