So, Stephen a Are the Browns more likely to get blown out or to keep it close?

Get blown out Now?

I'm not predicting it's gonna be a blow out.

I'm not predicting it's gonna be a blowout, but I'm just saying, when you you gonna ask me if I had to take my money, This is I'm answering the question, Ryan, if I had to take my money and put it on the table and you only got two choices, All right, close game or blow out.

I'm gonna say a blowout.

For this reason, I fully understand that the Bryant the Browns running game you moved to change.

You keep the ball out of Patrick Mahomes, saying you could make things happen because they're the top three Russian attack in the National Football League.

I get that.

My belief, Max, is this.

The Kansas City Chiefs are gonna remember how they gave up those leads.

I'm sorry how they how they surrendered big leads early in the playoffs last year.

And then they ended up having these heroic comeback dropping 41 straight points on the Houston Texans coming back on the Tennessee Titans.

That's what they're going to remember.

What I'm saying is, this year they ain't doing that.

They're gonna come out guns blazing.

And what they're gonna do is they're gonna put Cleveland on their heels.

And then Cleveland is gonna have to either exercise patience or they're gonna hit the panic button.

Because this dude, Patrick Mahomes, is like coming out of the woodwork wreaking havoc and we already in the hole.

So we're gonna have toe, put it in Baker Mayfield hands and throw the football.

I think I think Kansas City is scoring a touchdown on their first two possessions.

Their first two possessions.

They score a touchdown, and all of a sudden, that's what it's gonna turn into now.

It could be a shootout like they had against the Baltimore Ravens in the regular season when they lost 47 42.

If I remember correctly, something like that.

But I don't see that happening.

I see ultimately Kansas City pulling away because Patrick Mahomes and those boys come out flinging it all over the place against a suspect defense in Cleveland, meaning a suspect secondary.

Because we're guaranteed those boys going after the pastor I know that they could make life difficult, but I just see it being one of those things where potentially, you know, they could run away with it.

If I had to pick between the two, I'm gonna say it's Kansas City running away in the second half.

It's Kansas City close, much more likely.

And by the way, you can score in 60 seconds, and it could take the other team six minutes.

But in the end, if you're both scoring touchdowns, what difference does it make?

You know?

And and here's the thing.

The Browns, first of all, bigger.

Mayfield's a capable throw of the football we've seen.

It has to be like most quarterbacks, he has to be in the right situation.

Mahomes doesn't have to be.

That's why my home is one of those special quarterbacks who ever lived, if not the most special.

But Bakers, like most other guys in the right situation, most other good quarterbacks in the right situation.

You could throw it and he's shown it and he can, and he could do it under pressure.

Here's the other thing, though.

Forget about style of play for a second.

The Browns just put 48 up on the Steelers defense 48 that they doubled their previous total against the Steelers from the very previous game because they clean them in consecutive games.

End of the regular season in the playoffs, they put up 24 by the way, in recent games they had a very tough and close loss to Baltimore and they beat the Titans now, like they have quality wins and they're capable of putting up points when they need Thio and they're capable of playing defense when they need Thio and and and and and the style of play might bode well for them.

But here's the other thing about the Chiefs.

I put their schedule up in front of me, I can tell you off the top my head.

They blew out the Chargers and the Jets right there.

November 1st, they blew out the Jets, and then their most recent game.

They blew out the Chargers.

Two teams who are so bad that they fired their coach is right.

Like that's what happened in between those two games.

Let me just tell you the scores of their games, Okay?

You tell me if you see a blowout coming.

The Falcons by a field goal.

The Saints by a field goal.

The Dolphins by two field goals.

The Broncos by two field goals.

The Bucks by a field goal.

The Raiders by four points.

The Panthers by two points.

They beat teams by under a touchdown.

Every team except the Jets of the charges.

You think they're gonna blow out the Browns the way they're playing?

They'll win.

It's gonna be tough.

See, man, this is the worst part about being a guest on this show, right?

You get to run down, you get your little email, you go do your research.

And then Max and Stephen, they get to go first.

They take all the good stats, especially Max, because, you know, that's my analytics guy.

That's my Warren sharp guy, right?

You take all the analytics, you take all the stats, and then now I just gotta come hit you all with some plain old football knowledge, because Max is right.

Stephen A.

When you look at the schedule, when you look at the teams, the team that scores the most points or the team that scored 44 times this year, it's not the Kansas City Chiefs.

It's the Cleveland Browns.

The quarterback with the most, UM, three touchdown quarters is not Patrick Mahomes.

It's Baker Mayfield.

Now.

We very well could see what we saw in Oklahoma.

Face Texas Tech when these two teams played each other over.

These two quarterbacks played each other, and they both just went crazy.

But I don't expect the blowout.

They haven't had a blowout in the last eight weeks of the season.

If you're the Kansas City Chiefs.

No, this is the team that, despite what we say all the cliches, you can't just hit a light switch.

You can't just turn it on this team can.

Why can't the Kansas City Chiefs do that?

Because of the quarterback?

When the quarterback says it's time to play, it's timeto win.

Usually it's time to play, and it's time to win.

But the Cleveland Browns are made in the way, at least offensively, that you have to be made to beat Patrick Mahomes.

He has nine losses in his career.

In those losses, the team average the team averages 35 carries.

Ah, 160 rushing yards on the ground.

What team is better situated to do that than the Cleveland Browns, Kareem Hunt, Nick Chubb.

And they also now have a quarterback who, when called upon when needed to make plays when needed to carry the team.

We've actually seen him do it.

And so do I think the Kansas City Chiefs are gonna win.

Hell, yeah, I'm not gonna sit up here and say the Cleveland Browns are gonna win, But it's not out of the realm of possibility that this is a close game, that this game is tight going into the fourth quarter, that Patrick Mahomes may need some heroics in order to pull it out.

The Cleveland Browns are different football team.

They aren't the same old Brown's, I think Juju Smith Schuster find that found that out.

I think Chase Claypool seems to continue to feel that, as he says, stupid things day by day, the Cleveland Browns are different.

The Cleveland Browns.

They're going to come and fight.

They love having their back against the wall.

They love being faced with adversity, and this year, at least this year they've been overcoming it.

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