Lake Erie’s Revenge: The Cleveland Browns’ Date With AFC Destiny

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When the Cleveland Browns took down their rivals the Steelers last weekend, decades of football angst was released. The Browns got their first playoff win since the 1990s, and now they’ll face reigning Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Led by quarterback Baker Mayfield, the Browns are desperate to prove that this team and this season is different. ESPN Browns reporter Jake Trotter brings us inside their historic season, and traces Baker’s rise. Then, head to Buffalo with ESPN Bills reporter Marcel Louis-Jacques and a fan very close to ESPN Daily, for a look at Bills mania ahead of their second home playoff game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit back and watch and listen to this one inside a half minute, and the Browns will not have to snap the ball again.
0:08.5	They will beat the Steelers in the opening round of the playoffs on a wonderful, wonderful wildcard weekend.
0:16.5	48, 37.
0:18.9	Kansas City, here we come.
0:23.1	The Browns is the Browns.
0:26.8	Is the Browns in the playoffs?
0:30.6	Baker Mayfield and Cleveland take on Patrick Mahomes
0:32.8	and the Chiefs this weekend after Cleveland's first NFL
0:36.2	playoff win since forever.
0:39.8	All right, since 1994.
0:42.2	But today, hear how a team that was once synonymous with losing changed everything.
0:50.1	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, January 15th.
0:57.0	This is ESPN Daily.
1:05.7	Jake, thanks for joining me, man. Good to be on with you, Pablo.
1:11.2	Jake Trotter covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN, and before that, he reported on the Big 12 and followed Baker Mayfield's meteoric rise. So you live in Cleveland?
1:17.7	I live in Cleveland. I live about five miles away from the Browns training facility in Berea.
1:24.4	Oh, so listen, you are right at the heart of everything. You cover the Browns. I want to
1:29.5	understand what does winning this first playoff game in 26 years and doing it against this
1:35.3	truly hated enemy in the Pittsburgh Steelers, what does it do for a city after two decades of
1:39.8	being like generally humiliated? How would you describe the energy, Jake, in Cleveland right now?
1:45.5	Yeah, I would describe it as one of the greatest moments in the history of the city. And I'm not
1:50.2	just talking about football. I'm talking about all moments. If you talk to people who grew up here,
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