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[Assistant] He's making 16. And if I'm Jimmy Sexton, I hold that contract up. You who? Kevin's agent. You hold that contract up.


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[Assistant] To Jimmy and say here's our starting point. Uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] You know what's hilarious about this next thing we gotta talk about guy? So Kevin Stefanski, in his press conference yesterday, said that he still has not decided who the play caller is, right?


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[Assistant] We'll talk about, I mentioned, well let's mention the Nick Chubb thing really quick because it's there. Good to hear that he's, he's supposed to progress to more...


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[Assistant] Like a different type of workout, more football style workout. Andrew Berry was saying they should know soon if he'll be ready for the beginning of the year. And there was no answer on Brazil. But let's talk about play call. So...


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[Assistant] We've talked a lot in the media on this show and I'm sure the other shows in town about what's going on with the play calling. Like is Stefanski being, is he giving up play calling? Is he having his hand forced to give up play calling? Or is he gonna still call the plays and why don't the Browns announce it? Now what's funny to me is


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[Assistant] What do- when it comes to Stefanski, guys, what do fans that aren't all in on Stefanski most complain about? Play calling. Okay. And yet those same fans are now complaining


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[Assistant] That the media is making a big story about this, and there's no story, it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Even though they've been complaining for four years about the play calling. So, if you're one of those people, you're a hypocrite. You're a hypocrite! Okay? I don't like it. Now, it's a, the Browns have turned this into a bigger story than it needs to be, in my opinion, guys. Because...


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[Assistant] If they had just announced it when they had, the idea that they haven't decided.


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[Assistant] I don't believe that. Maybe I'm wrong? I don't beli- What? Why haven't they- You think I'm wrong? You think they maybe haven't decided? I have my own personal beliefs of how this is gonna go. Go ahead. No, I'm gonna set those aside for a second. Let's take them at their word, okay? Let's take them at face value. They're telling the truth. They don't know. Kevin hasn't decided. Okay.


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[Assistant] It's perfectly logical not to announce a play caller in March if he truly hasn't decided what type of relationship has he had with Ken Dorsey to this point. They have to get in together. They have to work together. Like, they haven't had one practice together to see how each other operates. Right. Kevin didn't decide.


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[Assistant] Really, I don't think Kevin decided until almost the start of the regular season when he got here, who was going to call plays him or AVP.


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[Assistant] And he decided it was going to be himself. Now he was a rookie head coach. He had a lot of decisions to make. Maybe he saved that one for last. Whatever. But you want to go through practices. You want to go through training camp. You want to get to know a guy. They've had zero time to do that. So if you take them at face value.


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[Assistant] Which I don't, but go ahead. But if you take a face value that they haven't made a decision yet that he hasn't decided, of course you're not going to decide in March.


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[Assistant] They haven't even had an OTA together. Like they've had zero time on the field together. So Kevin doesn't know Ken's...


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[Assistant] You can sit here across the table from each other, but until you get out there on the field, am I right? You can get out there on the field and experience it and feel it and see how he handles situations. How do you have any idea what you want to do in September when you have had zero time together in March? And everything you say makes sense, but do you, are you buying what you're selling right now?


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[Assistant] I don't know. I was staunch. What? No, but here's the thing. I don't know for me is moving toward the line because...


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[Assistant] Six weeks ago, I was pretty convinced Kevin wasn't going to be calling plays. They were bringing Kenny to call the plays. And now the fact that they haven't announced it yet kind of tells me


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[Assistant] Maybe he does, maybe he really does want to get here and see and...


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[Assistant] And see how it goes. So that's actually, for me to say, I don't know, it's actually moving down the line because I was over where bull was and I'm sort of turning toward the middle now. Well, and I'll say, if you're right,


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[Assistant] That maybe that's part of the holdup. Maybe Kevin Stefanski's like, it's my decision who calls plays.


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[Assistant] And if, if Ken Dorsey's gonna call plays, it's up to me, not you. The extension actually makes me believe that that is true. The fact that they are extending him. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Tells me that he hopefully has the autonomy and the authority that he should have and that I thought he had up until January. Yeaah. And I mean I was told he was the one that wanted Rable here first.


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[Assistant] I don't, if you're skeptical of that, I don't blame you. Well, but you probably heard it from a good source that, you know. Yeah, I mean it was within the team, but you know, what do you want him to say? He was forced on him? They're not, you know, even if...


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[Assistant] So from the 30,000 foot view, here's where, here's where the extension is really important. From the 30,000 foot view, if you're looking down at the Browns and you're not inside the building,


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[Assistant] They fired their offensive coordinator and the head coach is in the last year of his deal and they just brought in an elite head coach as a consultant. That is lining up to fire the head coach every single time. So to sign the extension.


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[Assistant] So here it was Kevin's idea to bring him in or whatever. It's all good things. Now we just have to let it play out because


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[Assistant] From the outside, it doesn't look good. But from the inside, if he signs the extension, when he signs the extension, all of that goes away. And if it really was his idea, then that shows you a level of confidence in his position. Now he does have that. And that's important. Kevin is unbelievably confident with no ego.


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[Assistant] I know that sounds contradictory, but he is very confident in his abilities.


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[Assistant] And it's not just the confidence as you talk about, the confidence in himself.


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[Assistant] But also, you gotta have confidence in your position within the team. You know what I mean? Like, if he's willing, if he, it was his decision to bring Mike Vrabel in, then he's not worried about, oh, here's this really good coach that they'll have in place if they fire me. He's not, he's obviously not worried about that. And so,


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm feeling a little better. I was, when they first fired Alex van Pelt, we heard that he might lose Blake Lohling. I was with you, I was with you. I was very negative because I thought Jimmy was overstepping again and forcing his hand on a coach who had done a really good job.


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[Assistant] But you guys are, are talking me into that maybe it's Kevin's real decision here. I'm feeling a little better. As long, I don't care who calls the plays, as long as it's Kevin Stefanski's decision. That's all I care about.


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[Assistant] Well, Drew Petsing last year, went from quarterbacks coach to OC in the air.


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[Assistant] People were complaining it was not enough time. One woman complained that my background wasn't appropriate for the Guardians.


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[Assistant] I was thinking about that, like my background at my house is, I got a mix of stuff back there, I need to get some additional guardian things to put up there, but time does go fast.


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[Assistant] Why can't, what I don't understand is, why is it not an option to build a new stadium downtown? There's no space. Not to do what he wants to do.


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[Assistant] Okay, not. Put a dome. Well, you could, you could, you could find the land to put a dome stadium, but he wants it all. He wants the mixed use component, restaurants, hotels, shopping.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's why you like, there's certain spots that you have to like, go to a different spot to get to a different floor.


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[Assistant] In terms, things that I don't, I, I don't know, you, you are closer on these stories, but I don't even know if you know, that, that, if the team moved to Brook Park,


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[Assistant] But the city is obviously trying to keep the team in, in Cleveland. Well, yeaah, I mean, I think, yeaah, they should, but I don't think it's that big of a deal if they go to Brook Park. I, I, I don't see what the... You want them to go to Brook Park, huh? Well, I, I get... It makes the most sense of these two options. Well, if the concept of what they're trying to do...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't do that down time. Here's where you lose the economic impact on a Sunday morning.


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[Assistant] You drive downtown, you park your car, you stop at three or four bars on your way in. Right. You're, you're, so, so that part, and, and there's really not a lot of pre-gaming going on for Guardians and Cavs games. Certainly not Guardians, Cavs are some, and Guardians there's a little bit.


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[Assistant] But it, obviously Brown's is the big one. So those, those bars and restaurants.


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[Assistant] What about, like, tax revenue from the stadium? Like, how does that? I mean, I don't know anything about, you know, you're gonna lose that. I mean, what do they do? I guess,


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[Assistant] In theory, what would you turn all that land into housing? Would you develop that? Certainly there are better uses for lakefront property in Cleveland than a freaking stadium that you use 10 days a year. So I don't think it's a bad thing at all. On these conversations, because we've never had a conversation about a team moving out of the city, in terms of like, it's not leaving the area. Correct.


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[Assistant] Fans are not losing their team. Correct. But, I, I, I don't know enough about the economic impact. I know that, we all know that Cleveland, in the grand scheme of America, of the big cities in America, is a struggling city, in a lot of ways. It's improved, the city's been, been improved, and I know in the 13 years I've been living here,


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[Assistant] But, it's still tough. There's a lot of poor people in the city. And I would just be...


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[Assistant] It just would suck if, if, if peep, the, the regular people of Cleveland.


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[Assistant] He's gonna do part of it through ticker revenue and there's gonna be PSLs or something like that I would imagine all over again. So it's gonna be very, very expensive to go to a Browns game.


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[Assistant] So, so from that component, it would be hard. But if you're looking at like, you want to sit in warmth and like,


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[Assistant] Money to redevelop the waterfront and do it right. The calves are redeveloping the river and they will for sure do it right.


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[Assistant] Dan and I have had our wars in the past, but when that guy spends money, it is elite. It is top of the- Where? Where is he?


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[Assistant] On the new practices along the Cuyahoga River. Okay. So it's, it's, it's. They're gonna do a whole thing. It's gonna be nice. It's gonna be a whole, there's gonna be a spot to, you can, uh, it's gonna be like a kayak launch point. Okay. So you can actually access the Cuyahoga River now, which hasn't been done in decades.


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[Assistant] So, if the calves are taking care of the Cuyahoga River component of this, if the city can do the waterfront, Jimmy handles...


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[Assistant] We're talking, and I was going to try and write something about that in the next week or so. You're talking about a whole overhaul.


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[Assistant] Of greater Cleveland. And we haven't even gotten to the women's soccer team that's trying to build a stadium too. Now I don't know where the money's gonna come from for all this stuff.


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[Assistant] Dan's gonna take care of that component. You don't have to worry about that. But it will take public dollars.


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[Assistant] It will take, it will take public dollars to do the football stadium. I agree with you, Jimmy should pay for the whole thing himself. He's not going to.


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[Assistant] But we talked about it before. There are ways, without going to the general fund, without taxing, with using people who will use the stadium. Gambling, there are ways, marijuana, there are ways to get that thing built without using general fund dollars. And then the women's soccer stadium would be a cool smaller venue.


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[Assistant] But I just don't know where you get the funding for that. I'm still working on that piece of it. I would love, Mike, I think at some point here we need to bring on


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[Assistant] Somebody, I don't know if it's from the city or, to talk about what the negative impact would be, how bad it would be, I mean I'm thinking about,


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[Assistant] That would hurt. It would hurt on Sundays for sure. It would hurt for sure. And it's not really just, you know, eight or nine days or whatever it is because people go downtown on road games too, don't they? What do you mean?


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[Assistant] You mean Saturday nights? No, I mean, people will go to the bars on a Sunday, even if the Browns are on the road, to just hang out with other Browns fans at a bar. Does that happen?


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[Assistant] And, there's no reason why that would necessarily change now that I think about it. If it's a road game, what's the difference where the team is playing? And, and, it, yeaah, if those are the only two options,


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[Assistant] You know, in a vacuum, the Brook Park thing makes sense because it would make sense to have a stadium, but I hate to see the city that has been on the rise in a positive way in a lot of ways. I think it still can be. Like, I think the stadium looks terrible on the look front. It looks awful. And they, you know, I had, there's a couple people who,


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[Assistant] We've talked to fairly frequently who, this is what they do. And they've been part of these stadium projects, public financing, that sort of thing. And the point that's always made to me is like,


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[Assistant] Look at the rock hall. It is this beautiful architectural structure. Look at the science museum. It's this beautiful architectural structure.


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[Assistant] And they look like Tinker Toys compared to this massive thing that sits empty 355 days a year. Like what sense does that make? Now I'm not saying the city will ever get it right.


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[Assistant] But the Browns leaving the lakefront would at least give them the opportunity.


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[Assistant] develop that. The states already committed the money to a footbridge to connect.


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[Assistant] So like Fred, I think, I would think that that's still in play, even if the stadium is not there. You still need to be able to access it. Right. And now it gives you a clean slate. Get rid of that friggin' thing.


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[Assistant] And use the land. Look at Navy Pier in Chicago. Why can't Cleveland have something like that?


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[Assistant] There are so many possibilities that are so much better than a stupid stadium on the water. Waterfront property is so valuable. And we put an airport on it in a stadium. Are you kidding me? You know who uses the airport? The rich guys. Jimmy and Dan. That's why I don't get rid of that. That's what Dan uses. Jimmy uses it.


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[Assistant] They fly their private planes in there, they're right there downtown. Everything is done for the rich. And they have everybody else fighting with each other. Now I think that there are reasons, something about the land, I don't know. I've heard different theories as to why they can't get over to the airport. I think it's because that's what the billionaires use. That on the sports teams in town.


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[Assistant] I know Dan uses it, I shouldn't say for sure Jimmy does, I imagine he does.


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[Assistant] But they're also here quite a bit. But I know, like, I've talked to Dan before, it's wild.


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[Assistant] Dan would leave his house during a Michigan State game. This is pre-stroke. Dan would leave his house at like half time of a Michigan State football game and be in Cleveland and miss like five minutes in the third quarter. Because he would, his plane was that close to his house in Detroit. He would fly to Burke, land at Burke, drive to the queue and miss like


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[Assistant] Five minutes. It's crazy. Some life. Go ahead, mate. What a life.


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[Assistant] Jimmy holds the hammer on this because he's already got the, he's got the option to buy the land in Brook Park.


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[Assistant] But the funding is a huge component of this. Like, they gotta come up with a billion dollars in public money. And...


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[Assistant] That's not so easy to do, especially for an owner in town who isn't really liked that much. Like, can we be honest? Do people really like Jimmy Haslam? They love Dan Gilbert.


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[Assistant] People love Dan Gilbert. Dan got casinos passed in Ohio. You know how long they tried to legalize gambling in Ohio? For decades. They couldn't get it done. You know who got it done? Dan Gilbert got it done.


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[Assistant] Bumbling the Browns for 10 years. The Deshaun Contract. Buying the Bucks.


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[Assistant] Uh, getting sued by Warren Buffett. Yeaah. There's a lot of strikes against Haslam. And I don't know if they take this to the ballot, I don't know that they can get it passed. And if they can't get it passed, that's how they wind up back on the lakefront. That's the only way. But if they get funding, if they feel confident, if they get the right lobbyists and they get something on the ballot,


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[Assistant] And they feel, and that has to happen soon. But either way they have to get some public money, no?


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[Assistant] But if you can only get half a billion, he's gonna do downtown. So what I would think is, if the, if the Brook Park thing is such a profit machine for him, then wouldn't he be better off spending one and a half billion?


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[Assistant] And instead of spending, he was going to do a billion and a billion, that's what he's looking for. Wouldn't he be better off in the long run if he spent a billion and a half? Even if the public funding was only a half a billion? Because in the long run, it'll be worth so much more to be in Brookbark for him? Possibly, but I think they're going to start with they want half. And by the way,


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[Assistant] It's gonna be higher than two billion. Like, it's gonna be closer to two and a half.


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[Assistant] I mean, when you're getting to those figures, what's another 100 million? But there is a big jump from, we're talking a billion to really two and a half billion. So that's quite a leap.


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[Assistant] What's the minute's chance that this ends up in Brook Park, you think? Eighty-five. Ninety. Ninety.


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[Assistant] The lease is up, what, 28? The lease is up in 28. 26.


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[Assistant] That's too late. You gotta start building next year. You gotta start building now. Because it took Minnesota three to four years, I think, to pass the legislation.


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[Assistant] And, uh, get the financing in place and get the stadium built. It was about a three, four year project. So the 28th season is the last season? Is the last, cause it was a 30 year lease. Yeah. Began in 99. Right. So 2028. So they need a new stadium by 2029.


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[Assistant] And we're really, it doesn't feel like it, you gotta decide now. It's coming. And one more thing on this. Keep this filed away.


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[Assistant] The, I think the best path to get this thing financed is, uh, marijuana. The, well marijuana is part of it. The pull tabs. The electronic pull tabs. Yeaah. And we talked about this before, I wrote about it before. Yeaah. The person in charge of that


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[Assistant] Component is Dave Yost, Ohio's Attorney General. Who's running for governor in two years?


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[Assistant] Dave Yost, Ohio's Attorney General. Who's he trailing? John Husted, who is far ahead in fundraising and everything else. Husted is most likely to win as DeWine retires. Husted is the, uh,


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[Assistant] Deputy, he's the assistant, the vice governor, whatever you want to call it, the deputy governor. Houston's probably going to win. If Yoast wants to make a run at them, what better way to build your platform?


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[Assistant] He's a shady character in my opinion. With, uh, the gambling. With the, with the electronic pull tab gambling. Yeaah, that's true. His office falls in, and what I'm trying to say, I'm going about this horribly.


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[Assistant] The charity gambling falls under the Ohio Attorney General's office. And that's what, that's, I think that's how Minnesota built.


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[Assistant] Uh, their stadium and that's I think the best path to get this one done. So, file that away because it all goes back to politics and it always goes back to money.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the reason I got aggravated before the show is not because I think the rule is good and necessary, because I don't give a crap about the rule. I actually agree with your


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[Assistant] In the grand scheme of things, I don't think it's that big a deal because they, the NFL reported it happened on average once per game, so I don't know that it's making that big a difference. What I can't stand


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[Assistant] Deal with it. I'm just sick of the complaints. Stop saying you're gonna stop watching the game. Nothing, nothing that happens in football is stopping anybody from watching the game. Have people really said I'm gonna stop watching the game because they took out hip drop tackles?


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[Assistant] I agree, as much as I yelled and screamed before the show, I agree it's stupid, they shouldn't have added it.


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[Assistant] Here's the one thing where I think, like they can hide behind player safety, that's for player safety. That's not the case. I don't know, yeah, I tend to agree with you. I don't think they really care about player safety in the end. But here's the one thing where it feels like,


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[Assistant] unintended consequences i is I'll go back to the NBA the rules defensively and


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[Assistant] I just worry with the NFL as they try and...


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[Assistant] You're right. Everything offense. How do we get mor


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[Assistant] And some of these moves in a vacuum may not seem like a big deal, but when you add one on top of another on top of another on top of another, my fear is


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[Assistant] 10 years from now, 15 years from now, the NFL is facing some of the problems that the NBA is, where, what do you do? But isn't the NBA still very, doing well?


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[Assistant] Look at All-Star Weekend. Yeaah. I mean, that's a drastic example, but look at All-Star Weekend. Like that...


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[Assistant] Is very much, uh, the starting point of that was what I'm talking about with Jerry Colangelo and David Stern. Now you get it to where no one's trying and they're just walking down in Jack and Threes. It was never like that before. But don't you think that, I mean, I


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[Assistant] I think people my age and older do. But I think young people still love the NBA as much as ever. I don't know. Not according to the ratings. No, it's not. I mean the high point recently was the Cavs Warriors finals I think.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's been surpassed or not, like the 2016 finals, but it's been, it's been trending down since then.


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[Assistant] They don't, the league doesn't care about the players. You know that.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, I don't think this hip track, uh, uh, hip tackle is gonna make any difference. Hip drop.


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[Assistant] But they do want to keep quarterbacks healthy, I'll tell you that.


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[Assistant] Isn't it mostly, and maybe I'm way off on this, when you're catching guys from behind, so it wouldn't really apply to quarterbacks, right? Like you're not really bringing a quarterback down on the hip. Maybe Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] The game is not played north and south anymore. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying, it can't be that if you make a regular tackle and you land on his legs, it's a penalty every time. You better read it. I swear, that's what I read yesterday. Alright, you want me over it, stupid.


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[Assistant] I don't think he's a phony. I have no idea. You don't like that he tried to get his brother the award? What is that? I don't like his brother. I don't like the Watts. I'm anti-Watt. What about Derrick? I don't know. He's meaningless. He just retired actually.


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[Assistant] Now what's the, there's more to it if it just lands. So if it goes in the end zone.


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[Assistant] If the ball is in the top. What he said originally.


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[Assistant] Right, he should have clarified that. Okay. Now, so if it, what if it goes out of bounds in the target zone? That's still a penalty, right?


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[Assistant] But, if it's in the target zone, unless the kick, unless the, it, they changed the rule recently where, even if the ball landed before it, well, no, that's not true. If, if the, so if the ball lands inside the 10 yard line, you gotta pick it up and run it.


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[Assistant] It used to be the 20. It was the 20. It's been the 25. Now it's gonna be, if you kick it into the end zone, it's on the 30. Well, two things on it. Wasn't they like that last year? No, it was 25. 25. And they wanted to make it 35, but they made it 30 instead. So now,


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[Assistant] Well, you don't want to hear what I think about this. Go ahead. You don't like it? It's confusing. Just start, just, just take possession of the curtain.


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[Assistant] What I like about this... Thomas, what do you think about this? What is your opinion on this? It's confusing, but once we get used to it... I mean...


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[Assistant] So what is the, why wouldn't, why not just kick it through the end zone like they do anyway? Cause you'll get it at the 30. It's gonna be at the 30.


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[Assistant] Whereas if you, if it lands in the, between the 20 and the goal line, you either have to return it or if it rolls into the end zone, in that, if you drop it into two and it rolls into the end zone, the offense starts at the 20. You can't pick it up. No, you can.


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[Assistant] But if, if you're, you know, whatever, or you get, or you get down to the end zone. It's encouraging you to return the ball. So. It's essentially. You know what this sounds like to me? It sounds like the NBA end season tournament to me. Just a bunch of nonsense. I like it. It is, it is very complicated. It makes it safer without.


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[Assistant] You see a lot of double reverse, not a lot, but you see double reverses now.


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[Assistant] Right, because there's more opportunities to earn the ball, and in recent years, as you said, it was only 20% returns. Well, that number's gonna go, what percentage of returns were there in that league?


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[Assistant] Give the ball the 30 and off you go. That would help the offense again. This, this could help the offense, but it could also help the defense. This rule could help the defense because if you have a good kicker that can place the ball starting at the 20.


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[Assistant] And what's interesting is, it's a big advantage for the return guy because he's in motion. Everybody else can't move. They're just...


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[Assistant] They'll move it again when they had the 18th. Yeah. I need an 18th game. We need that.


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[Assistant] Instead of wasting time with challenges and now the referee's gotta go look at the video. There should be an extra ref at each game in the booth, seeing high def.


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[Assistant] It was about to be bad. I gotta tell ya, I didn't even know for sure that Charlotte was still in the NBA.


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[Assistant] They have no shot at beating the Celtics in the playoffs. They have no shot at beating the Bucs in the playoffs. And they have no shot at beating the Knicks in the playoffs. They could beat any other team, right? Well, probably can't beat Philly either. And the other teams they could beat in the first round, who can't they beat? Miami? Can they beat Miami? They can beat Orlando or Indiana, right? That's what we're down to. That's it.


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[Assistant] This game has zero value, zero meaning. It's good that Evan Mobley's back. I think he did a decent job. You guys haven't taken anything out of this? Does it matter in any way?


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[Assistant] No, he had 14, he had 8 assists. He had 14, uh, 17 points and 8 assists. He had 8 assists. Look at that.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, you just mean the games. I mean the schedule. The logistics of their schedule. They got chewed up by it. I think we talked about on the show that we would know by the end of March what kind of team they were. Well, we're getting the answer. They're getting their asses beat. Just by the travel in the different city, different day type thing.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, they gotta get healthy. And they needed a win last night just to flush Miami. Worst performance of the year. Just to get that out of them. It doesn't matter who's the worst team. It doesn't matter who it is. You gotta go out there and win a game. And just feel good about yourself again. Okay. But they gotta get Donovan. They gotta get Max back. And JB.


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[Assistant] has got to figure out some sort of rotation. I mean, that's the most alarming part of all of this to me, is we got nine games to go.


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[Assistant] I have no idea what Jamie rotation is. No idea. Like with most, most teams, especially a playoff team by this point in the season, you know at the six minute mark, this dude's probably coming in the game. This guy's going out. You know the matchups that work best. You know what to expect. I have no idea what to expect. And


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[Assistant] Evan and Jared start together, but they don't really play together. They're still patty-caking these guys and taking one off and putting one on and like nothing just fits. And they are out of time.


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[Assistant] And until Donovan gets back and Max gets back and they have a couple of games, like you want, you want to take that one or two games before the end of the season, especially the last game and rest everyone and get them off their feet and not have any silly injuries going into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they're gonna have that luxury. I think they gotta run through the tape on this just because they need to see what they've got and they need to try and figure out some semblance of a rotation and the fact that we don't have that is...


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[Assistant] But it's crazy that we're sitting here on March 26th and we don't know what the calves rotation is.


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[Assistant] If, if the Cavs fall in their face in the playoffs again this year, which I think they're expecting at this point. I mean right now they get Indiana in the first round, so that, they should be in Indiana. But if they do, you think JB gets fired? Yes. You think, uh, Kobe gets fired? Possibly. The Kobe thing, Kobe's gonna be tied to Donovan. Right. And if Donovan, I, I keep trying to write a column.


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[Assistant] Because I want to write Donovan's best course of action is to sign an extension. But I can't write that the way that they're playing. Like, you just, but I'm like dying to write. Listen, he's played the best basketball of his career these two years in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Who's getting a lot of money, by the way. Let me ask you this, James. Evan, Darius, and Jared, and uh, Donovan right now are supposed to be the core. Let me ask you this. I know this is more of an off-season question, and it is a massive massive if.


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[Assistant] But if Donovan Mitchell signed an extension.


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[Assistant] If you were the Cavs this offseason, let's say this season just doesn't go well the rest of the way.


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[Assistant] And Donovan says, hey, I'm in. He signs a long extension.


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[Assistant] Would you then trade in the offseason Darius, Evan, or both?


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[Assistant] And JB. What do you think you're going to get for Darius? You're not going to get anything for Darius. Well, you get something, but not really.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna, coming off the season this year, the highest contract in team history, you are not getting, you have got to keep this. No, I don't think so. I don't, I don't, because, just because Donovan signs the extension doesn't mean you got him for four years, five years, whatever it is, it means you got him for one extra year. That's it, you got him for one extra year.


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[Assistant] Well, the coach would be fired. Donovan doesn't want the coach anyway, right? I don't know.


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[Assistant] JB's future is dependent on how this playoff run goes. Kobe's future is probably dependent on what Donovan does, because if Donovan wants out,


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[Assistant] This trade is gonna be like a wrecking ball. They lose five years of control of their draft.


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[Assistant] On a player who's not even gonna be here for those years. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I am so excited about the start of baseball season. Opening night is perfect. The Cubs play at 7.30. The Guardians play at 10.15. Now the games are only two and a half hours. The Cubs game should end just as the Guardians game starts and I am staying up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he has no choice. He better be over.


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[Assistant] He's played a lot. He's played injured quite a bit. Second half of seasons. Including last year. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] No yeaah. Wait, did I get it? I think it's 50-50 that he gets over it, but I went, I, he's...


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[Assistant] He's conscious of it. Yes. And he's spent the winner. Yes. And he is such a good hitter. He's gonna get eight. He can pick his spots. He's gonna get eight exactly. Remember how Ichiro, and he's not Ichiro, but.


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[Assistant] Each hero would pick his spots. Each hero could hit it out of the stadium any time he wanted. Yeaah. It was crazy. It was, it was weird. Watching him hit batting practice. Yeaah. He could hit it out of the stadium any time he wanted. I think he's gonna pick some spots where he gets a little more aggressive than he's been in the past. I'm gonna say he gets to 10. I think he gets 10 also. I got him a 10.


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[Assistant] It's funny, now he's missed time with injury over the years, so that's part of it. But you look at him, you'd think he'd be more of a home run hitter. You know? I'm gonna take the under on that, but I think it's close.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think that 20 to 23 range, I don't know that he gets over. How old is he? He's younger than you think.


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[Assistant] It's hard to believe he's only 26. Feels like he's been around forever. And this is his last year of arbitration? Is that right? Or he's got one more to go? I think he's got one more to go. I think he's got one year left. Uh, I am...


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[Assistant] Josh really brought me around last year by hitting the lefties. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's close. He's gonna finish. I think he's gonna set his career high, but it might end up being 22-23. I hope that he embraces the DH.


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[Assistant] Because I think it's where he's going to spend a lot of his time. He's going to spend a lot of time at DH, I think. And that should, that would help him. It would help him, but some guys hate that. I know. And they don't handle it well. And I hope, and he's, he's had some DH at bats, but he's played a lot in the field. I'm going to look at, I'm going to look at his numbers as a DH. If he would embrace that.


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[Assistant] I'll take that. He better. Now all these over, I think the numbers are good, because I think all of these are like right around the number. Yeaah. I, I think the nailer one's way out of line. I think that's way too high. What the AT? I'm going under on him, Enes. I'm going over.


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[Assistant] Because he better. He better. I think he's got a big ear.


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[Assistant] Jose. No, Jimenez. I wasn't that confident in really any of them. I'm most confident in Bo Naylor on the under. I just think that's absurd. I'm most confident on Jose on the over. I'm most confident in him.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, sick. No, I don't think he's gonna get that many.


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[Assistant] And I, I just, Ramon Laureano's probably gonna play almost every day. Yep. And Kwon's gonna play every day. Yep. So you essentially have two spots.


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[Assistant] For DH and center field for Brennan. And then once Manzardo comes up, then you're really down to one spot.


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[Assistant] Really good. Really good. He had a really good camp. His stock


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[Assistant] He did very well for himself this spring. Just in showing his versatility, showing he could handle it. It wasn't too much for him. He's always had a good bat. He's like, he could hit 280 in the majors every year. Uh, but finding a spot to put him was tricky because he's not really shortstop.


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[Assistant] But I think he's done very well for himself. And that's why I think they want to get a look at Floriali's auto options. They traded for him, but Floriali did not have a good spring. And I, I suspect Freeman's going to emerge as a center fielder by Memorial Day, if not before. I wouldn't be surprised if Floriali would DFA'd by


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[Assistant] Before the end of April. You might be right. Well that's not going to go well for the next over-under. Emerges.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it definitely. If he gets off to a good start, then it could change things. Yeaah. But. I will take the under on that. I agree. I think he lasts longer than April. But. I'm saying if he gets off to a 1 for 22 start, he's gone.


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[Assistant] Like this isn't Carlos Gonzalez and Haley Ramirez who were at the end of their time in the majors. I think they'd give him till at least May. But I don't think, I don't think Floriel's on the roster at the end of the year. Floriel feels like a 4A player. Yea. Alright.


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[Assistant] I'll take that. I'll take that. I got 190 hits. He's gotta stay healthy.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's, that's money. 14 and a half more. I'm about to say. That's money. I got 200 hits for Qantas. Yep.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think he's gonna. He hit five home runs this year. I got him with 10. It's not like I'm saying he's gonna 25 home runs. No, but I do think that he is gonna sacrifice a few hits to try and.


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[Assistant] Swing up, swing harder, however you want to put it. But I, I still, I think this is a big year for him. I don't know about the cameras. I think it's a big year for him. I agree.


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[Assistant] Well, just for the Guardians or even if he gets traded. His season. I think it should be his season.


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[Assistant] That's it, that's it over. He's, he looks good, he looks really sharp right now. It's a big year for him, he needs to be. It's a contract year. He better. The only way, I mean, obviously.


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[Assistant] I don't even, don't even care what you ask. I'm worried about him. Yeah, I am too. Not of surgery last year. I am too. Stopping. But he made it through stopping. Well, yeah. I'll take the, I'll take. I'm gonna go over. Yeah, I'm gonna take the over. Again, it's just, will he stay healthy? I'm a little nervous about that, but.


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[Assistant] All these guys are good strikeout pitchers at least they are. Is that just in his pitch?


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[Assistant] Oh that's right, he barely pitched, I forgot. What about the year before?


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[Assistant] Interesting. Must have something to do with some of them. Why Carrasco before McKenzie? That's what I want to know.


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[Assistant] Well that's why. So I'm not sure if it's just a timing issue, but. Probably how the rest falls. Today is Tuesday.


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[Assistant] The fourth game is on Monday. He could have still... Sunday would have been his regular turn. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. There's an off day Sunday, isn't there? Because it's the three game series. Oh, no, no, no, they play six days a week. It's a four game series.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a, that's right, it's four games in Oakland. Okay. Sunday would be McKenzie's regular turn if he was today, if he's going today. Maybe it has something to do, maybe McKenzie pitches better in Seattle than Oakland or something like that. I don't know. Or maybe it's Carrasco.


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[Assistant] Because Oakland's a better pitcher's park than Seattle. Yeah. And maybe they're worried about Carrasco and Seattle. Which lineup would you rather have Carrasco face, Oakland or Seattle? Right, exactly. Seattle's lineup's not great, but Oakland is terrible.


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[Assistant] The Guardians don't handle, at least under Tito, we'll see under Voad, they don't handle their pitchers like a lot of teams where it's five and fly. And let's face it, he ain't gonna be here next year, so they're not worried about next year with him. Yeaah. I'm all in on it. It's true. It's true. Look at the way, I mean the Brewers put a saddle on Cici Sabathia.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, that was crazy. Who got run into the ground more? Sabathia? Kluber. By the Brewers. Kluber was never the same pitcher. Never. Well neither was Andrew Miller, and neither was Rollins Chapman.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm going, I'm so- Well, over is bad. Angry, right. Yeah, I'm going angry. I'm not a Logan Allen believer. He's my- You don't like him? I like him the least of all their pitchers. Yes, I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what? I think he's a decent pitcher. He's okay. But he's not a- He's a fourth starter in the majors. That's funny. Fourth or fifth starter. Yeaah. Cause I'm going through


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[Assistant] Right, but hopefully they'll win a few games by more than one or two runs and they won't have to pitch every game they're winning. Go ahead, Mike, last one.


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[Assistant] You want to give it its own little category fine, it's not a no, it's a bogus stat because the greatness of a no-hitter is that one pitcher was able to throw a hundred, ten, hundred, twenty, hundred, forty pitches and get through it. When you bring in a bunch of high leverage relievers at the end, that's not the same.


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[Assistant] No. The last no hitter was the perfect game by Len Barker, right? Yep. Two. Yep. 82? I don't remember the year. I think we just passed some big anniversary. I wanna say it was 82. I should know that.


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[Assistant] I even, I've talked to him about it a couple of times. We've been in charity softball games together. I wanna throw a perfect game. Well, Len Barker did a perfect, pitched a perfect game. Is it in, was it in 82 that he pitched that?


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[Assistant] Alright. So, I was very pleasantly surprised to hear about the Guardians.


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[Assistant] Putting Miles straw on waivers. Obviously he was going to clear waivers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I saw yesterday Tom Withers, and I know he's just doing his due diligence, he works right for the AP. But Tom was like, we'll see if Miles Troy accepts his assignment to AAA. Well...


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[Assistant] If he didn't accept his assignment to AAA, he'd be saying goodbye to 20 million dollars over the next few years. So of course he was gonna accept, and of course nobody was gonna claim him on waivers, but it was worth it for the Guardians to put him out there.


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[Assistant] By some chance somebody, you know, took the contract. So he could just be the highest paid player. Hopefully he will just spend the next, he's in one of those weird situations. It's very rare that a player has a long term extension and is playing in the, but there's like no options.


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[Assistant] The only option is that they trade them to another team and the guardians eat 80-90% of the salary. Or they take on another bad contractor.


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[Assistant] or something like that. That's the only way. Nobody's taking his contract as is because it's an awful contract. There is another path, but they don't seem to want to take it where you just attach them to a good prospect or another good player and the other team swallows the money. But they've shown no indication. They've shown no indication. Like they will not do that. Now what they should do


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[Assistant] Or the opposite of that is if, we hope it doesn't come to this, but if at the trade deadline they're out of it, and they're trading Shane Bieber,


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[Assistant] They should say to the team, we'll take a little less in return if you take Maelstrom. Yeaah. Now, you get a less back? Right.


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[Assistant] But it might be worth it to get him off the payroll because they owe him five million this year, whatever it is. I think it's six or seven the next year. The year after that they owe him like seven or eight. And then the year after that there's an option, which of course they're not gonna pick up, but they owe him a payout off of that.


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[Assistant] So they owe him, he's got like about 20 million in guaranteed money, which is crazy. Now listen, he should be in the majors, but he should be a backup outfielder, like a Kevin Pilar, you know. And when people would go crazy about his defense, my point was always like,


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[Assistant] Okay, but guys who are great defensive players and can't hit, don't start. This is not 1978.


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[Assistant] You know, in 1978, if you played second base shortstop or center field, you could start even if you couldn't hit that much. Well, Miles Straw is arguably, along with his teammate Austin Hedges, the two worst hitters in baseball.


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[Assistant] So, but I was, I never expected the Guardians to do this. I know Zach was surprised. Were you surprised too? I mean, they usually don't bite the bullet like this.


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[Assistant] So go to Columbus. Huntington Park. Now they could bring them back up at some point if they had injuries.


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[Assistant] I don't know, that's a good question.


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[Assistant] He was actually hitting the ball a little bit, but it doesn't mean anything. Which is funny because every time I talked to you and over there it was.


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[Assistant] Miles has to have a big spring here. He has to have a good winter. Yeaah. Well, he did all that. Yeaah. And they should be on anyway. They're done. And that's good. It is good. Give young guys an opportunity. I love that Rokeo's on the roster and it's going to give a chance to establish himself in short. I love that Tyler Freeman's on the roster and hopefully going to play. Like he was on the roster last year, but they barely played him.


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[Assistant] It's time to, you know, you've been talking about all these kids forever, let's see them play. Give them a chance. If they don't get it done, they don't get it done, but we gotta see it. Bo Diaz, uh, Bo, uh, Bo Naylor, it is Bo, Bo Diaz used to be a catcher back in the day, but Bo Naylor,


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[Assistant] He got his opportunity last year and he took advantage of it. You know, he was really good. And we'll see if he can follow it up. Uh, but, uh, I think...


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[Assistant] I think everybody's down on the team deservedly so. But I'll say this, they overachieved Jason in 2022. No doubt about it. Better, right? But they underachieved last year. I think the reality of this team is somewhere in between and there is no clear favorite in this division.


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[Assistant] I mean, Minnesota would be the clear favorite, I guess, but I'm not a big believer in it's ways. They're not that good? I agree. They got two good starters that I like, uhm, they got Joe Ryan and, uhm- Gober? You like Gober? No, no, no, uh, Lopez. Oh, Pablo Lopez. Lopez. Right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And their lineups, you know, it's, it's solid, but it's not spectacular. Their closers hurt to start the season. But if you, yea, that's a big, that's a big deal. Yea, he's really good. If you had to pick right now who's going to win the division. I'd pick the twins. I would too.


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[Assistant] It should be. I don't know how you get all four teams to agree. You have a hard enough time getting one team to agree.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess maybe they're not spending as much time with each team. Maybe. That's how you do it. Or you force them, you know, aren't they forced to do it if they haven't been on? Yeah, there are rules where you can force some teams. But there's no way that, based on the current rules, that all four teams in the division are going to be in the same


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[Assistant] Scenario. I mean the AFC North is the most interesting division in football.


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[Assistant] By far, the best division. It's interesting. There's a lot of personality. There's a lot of rivalry. Uhm, so...


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[Assistant] I think it makes a lot of sense. I'd love it, that'd be fun. That would be a lot of fun. I don't think there's any way Kevin Stefanski would willingly open the doors to a film crew coming in. No, no, no, no. That would be, that would come from above his head. Right, right, right. Who'd say, we're doing this. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] And by the way, it's really not- People made such a big thing about the peacock.


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[Assistant] Alright, you got no problem with doing that. I read that.


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[Assistant] You know, when that playoff game was on Peacock, I think it was 75% of the people that signed up for Peacock stayed with them. That's why they do it. That's what they hope. Now do they stay with them or do they just forget to cancel?


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[Assistant] That's the only good show on there. My oldest actually signed up for all the wrestling. He's a huge wrestler. Yeah, that's true. They got all the wrestling. They do have the WWE there. So if you're into wrestling. I actually used his account and watched some of the old school wrestling from when I was in college. There you go. We'll see you at overtime for the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Peace!


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[Assistant] I'm G. Bush aka Country Style G. Bush today. Getting ready to get you guys together and I'm gonna tell you why and which player is going to be a locket free agency for the Cleveland Browns. Yeehaw!


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, the coaching and moving guys around, then Alex Van Pelt would have still been here, right? Uh, we would have kept Alex Van Pelt, ran a little variation, but last year we were sold a bill of goods that said this office is gonna be different. All we saw was Elijah Moore get into rounds for the first half of the season. That didn't work. We talked about this vertical threat. That was non-existent.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and so what I think they did is they went in and made a conscious effort of saying, let's get new guys, some new blood and a new atmosphere and a new thought process, uh, starting with Ken Dorsey and throwing the football and throwing it the way we want to throw it to be successful in the league. I look around at the rest of the league and, and, and Jason talks about it a little bit too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, easier throws, easier using motion. Go watch the Rams, how they use motion to get easy throws and to get mismatches.


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[Assistant] In the NFL, when you look at from motion and moving guys around, I think there'll be somewhere at the top of that list this year. And I definitely think the coaching staff will trickle down and make Deshaun Watson a more, I would say a bigger threat in the run game as well as the pass game with some of the new concepts.


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[Assistant] But don't get it twisted. Kevin Stefanski and these dudes, they're smart enough to adapt to whatever they want to run. You don't think Kevin, these Ivy League dudes, these guys know how to pivot on a dime. They can go find out some vertical pass plays. These guys are smart enough overall to tweak and still work in a collaborative environment.


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[Assistant] Hey, I got, listen, let's go, let's go along with Hollywood Brown. He gives you one thing you need is that receiver. He gives you that explosiveness. He gives you a guy that can take the top off of defense and when you see Hollywood Brown and now you have him


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[Assistant] With guys that can move around, move around in Amari Cooper, and you have David and Joku running the seams, now you can attack a defense at three different levels.


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[Assistant] You see what we talking about? And now Elijah Moore can see it slid right to your third or fourth receiver.


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[Assistant] And guess what? We could deal with that, him being your third or fourth. Not two. So to me, the biggest one, Hollywood Brown, he's might cost you, you know, somewhere to 10, 14 million a year, but he's going to give you something that the Browns have not had, which is speed and vertical ability. So thank you for the crystal ball. Cause I got Hollywood Brown.


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[Assistant] To, uh, play Floreal. Uhm, and guess what? I'm looking for Upside.


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[Assistant] I'm looking for pop, I'm looking for a little change of attitude.


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[Assistant] I want to see Floreal, um, and you know, if you're looking at it, I don't have a problem playing Gabriel Arias every single day because I'm going to figure out whether or not I need to move on from him. Will Brennan showed a little more pop in right field. But the big part about it is I like to see this and we get a chance to see Bo Naylor and Josh Naylor.


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[Assistant] Three versus one, I would have to reluctantly say I'd go with the uh, Browns. Just because, you know, what type of city this is and we're born into it and where we're at with football. But that's tougher than it seems because, like Jason said, I had a great time with the Cavs.


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[Assistant] Even when 2016 came around, I had a great time watching the World Series games with the Guardians and back in the 90s. So to say if those 90s teams were able to get it together and they won, it'd be hard pressed. But I would go just a sliver. I'd say yes, just to be selfish and say I'd trade those for a Brown Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Bull, it's so tough for me. I was sitting around the house, uhm, and we were at Jay's house for a Christmas party a couple years ago, and I just looked at Jay and said, there's no way I'd be here if the Browns was in this game.


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[Assistant] If the Browns were in the Super Bowl, I am not at your party. I don't even think I could have family over. I'd be that nervous. And for me, I get goosebumps just thinking about the jerseys on Super Bowl Sunday, seeing the Browns' jerseys on the primetime, what a halftime show, Jason, it's crazy. I get queasy. Like, I just did, it's just excitement, man.


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[Assistant] When I, so it's interesting you say this. So as you know, I don't know if I can say this or not, but y'all family, I'ma tell you the truth. So you know I work for the Big Ten.


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[Assistant] This past season, we did the show inside the big house, the Wolverines. We was there.


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[Assistant] No, no, I completely just said, forget my responsibilities, I'm going to make a play, and it was the wrong time.


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[Assistant] We was in, we was in cover 3. This is why, I told y'all, this is the story why I don't really claim this trophy because...


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[Assistant] If y'all knew, like I was getting pulled, I was about to get yanked out of the game for doing this. So they came out and they ran, they ran like a little over route and then they ran the big post behind it, which is a covered three beater. It's to get the eyes of the post safety. If he jumps that, hit him over the top.


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[Assistant] Now this wasn't Bama, this was, this was Mariota. He put it on the money too. So I go to the sideline, and that's where Urban comes over there, you know, Urban is, Urban comes over to me, he goes,


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[Assistant] So, I say to myself, here we go. So I go, I go sit on the bench. And my coach, my coach, my physician coach is in the box, Coach Ash. He, they go, Tyrus, you got a phone call.


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[Assistant] So I go grab the phone, he cussing me out. So, you know, that's the thing, when you get, when you give up a play like this, you always know that when you give up a big play, TV loves to put the, put the camera on you on the sideline. So I'm getting cussed out when I'm smiling like everything's good, cause I'm like, just in case they put the camera on me. He cussing me out, like, he's like, time it.


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[Assistant] I remember, I'll never forget. They say, yea, I'm gonna put you on the bench.


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[Assistant] Was it Eric Smith at the time? Eric Smith from Glenville? I think it was Eric Smith. I don't think that was before he toured his ACL. So yea, it would have been Eric Smith. They would have been fine because he was a good player. He was young though, so it would have been the speed of the game, which he kind of adjusted really well to. But overall, the playbook, if they would have started doing checks and adjustments, he would have been all over the place.


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[Assistant] See this is what I, this deep man. It's frustrating. It is because I remember sitting there with Jay Friday and we was talking about the next 12 gangs and he was like March 29th or whatever. We're going to know who the Cleveland Cavaliers are. We're going to know if they're a serious team or not. And now


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was bad. Jalen Brown did a really good job guarding Steph Curry. So that was crazy. But now that Donovan's out and all these other guys are starting to get these injuries.


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[Assistant] It's making these games not fun. Like I wanted to see, we're not gonna really know what we need to know. Like you're gonna, of course you'll get some backups that's gonna have to step up. Like it was nice seeing Sam Merrill step up. It was nice to see Okuro hitting them shots. Hey! So it was nice seeing those things, but.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, you need to see your alpha, you need to see your number one guy, and you need to see what this team is going to look like. I was sitting back and I heard Patrick Beverley talking to Dame Lillard.


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[Assistant] And he was saying, he was telling Dame to take the 40 foot shots. Because you need to, because as a teammate, I need to know, in playoff time, like I need to start practicing for rebounding and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] You know, I want to see you do that now. So now I can get myself prepared on how I need to play, how I fit in as a player when we come playoff time. And I think we missing those precious moments right now with these guys being out of the lineup. So it waters down the next three games for sure.


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[Assistant] You're comfortable with Darius Garland vs. Jason Tatum, their best player vs. our best player right now. You don't feel comfortable with Tatum vs. Mitchell? Tatum is the better player. I feel more comfortable with Tatum vs. Mitchell. Well yea, of course you feel more comfortable.


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[Assistant] They can definitely, but they still could, they could, like, if Tatum go for 30, Spider can go for 30. Like I'm not, I'm not willing to say that right now. Darius can go for 45. He's gone for 50 before. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Tatum's the better player, I'm not arguing with you. Yes, I'm not arguing that either, but I'm saying I am more comfortable with, uh, in the crunch time. You know what?


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[Assistant] Drew Tatum. You putting Derrick White up there?


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[Assistant] I tell you what, it will be an interesting game. One thing I will, I will tune in to see what I will check on. I don't know if I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna tune in or check on is...


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[Assistant] Exactly. So if Darius can find some offensive light, which he has all the potential to do, if he can get a nice scoring output against them, okay, that's something to be like, alright, alright, come playoff time, I can count on you in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I'm not really worried about, a lot of people are, I'm not worried about Darius in the playoffs today, I think he can still get buckets, but, you know, this is one of those situations where it's, you want the ball, you want to be the man.


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[Assistant] You want to have that responsibility where you want to wave Mitchell off sometimes and be like, I got this. You got a perfect opportunity to go do it today.


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[Assistant] Give me a seat at Steve. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna let you know something. This is serious talk. And we...


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[Assistant] Can't out rebound a shooting guard with two big men? Then why are we running two big men? We need to switch that up. I mean, the fact that Hart has so many rebounds. Hart killed them in that postseason series. Like this is, but it's ridiculous. Why are we running, the reason you run two bigs is to dominate the paint. To do what Chicago did to them last week.


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[Assistant] The piece that he was taking was to reduce fat, right? It was like a fat burner.


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[Assistant] Maybe muscle builder, fat reducer. It could be a twofer, yea I mean. We gotta see. It was the good stuff. We gotta see. But I tell you what, the test for me, and this is, I know a lot of people are gonna take this with a grain of salt, but after we lost to Chicago, Chicago played the Bucks.


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[Assistant] 46 points. That's what he did. So, Evan, you need to, you need to get with, go DM Yanis or ask him what it was that he took or what he did in the off season. You need to build you some muscle cause it's there for the taking. Like, if Yanis can pull, he was exactly as slim as you, wasn't he?


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[Assistant] That's actually interesting you bring that up because if they, for the next, let's say he's out for five games. For the next five games, if the offense did look like it did in 18-2,


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[Assistant] I think you kinda got your answer for moving forward, like.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's something about the too small guard thing. Like maybe you only do need one ball dominant guy. If they're swinging the ball around and they're effective, the offense is looking good, they're hitting shots. Like maybe you do need to think about running those type of lineups again. I just think it's just something to monitor.


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[Assistant] I'ma tell you, I'ma say it again. Cause I said it about two months ago.


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[Assistant] Sam Merrill is who we thought Max Streus was supposed to be. As far as shooting.


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[Assistant] Elite. His last, that game we beat them in the finals, didn't he hit like four threes or something like that? He was cashing out that game. Yea, he had a great game.


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[Assistant] Due to the fact that they beat Golden State so bad that they're on cloud nine and I think the Cavs losing that game in the fashion that they lost it in.


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[Assistant] They gonna wanna prove something. So this is a game to try to get the fanbase to.


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[Assistant] Get comfortable with them again, and I think they gonna come out there and try to really put a dominant performance on, especially if certain guys are out. If Perzengiz and Jalen Brown is out, that's more, I think you got enough offensive weapons to be able to do something.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm gonna tell you? What? Say they went out there and they played this game, right? But...


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[Assistant] Darius was actually like looking to hit like on Quarrel for open passes or he drove to the lane and he found Evan Mobley. And they just didn't fall.


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[Assistant] If that, listen, listen to me right now. If Peyton Pritchard go for 36 and Jason Tato pops Donovan Mitchell's chain, take the chain off.


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[Assistant] It should be some type of firing that's going on right then and there. If y'all can't get embarrassed like that twice and just think that that's okay and think that the fans is going to be behind y'all. Coach better get fired, some players better get cut, something, something. You better go, what's the dude off, uh, did y'all watch Winning Time?


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[Assistant] Did you see season 1? Where they went and got the one dude, Wood Harris character. What, he hasn't? No, Wood Harris. I didn't see it.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, they ended up getting a dude that was stealing on people on the court. They had the dog guy. Anyways, go get metal world peace and get him out of here. Make a long story short, go get world peace.


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[Assistant] Well the evidence is not great because the only evidence we got is Chicago and Nicks.


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[Assistant] He shoulda took the five. Did he get fined for that? I don't remember. Probably. I woulda just took a five.


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[Assistant] That's not the right answer. Okay, don't quote him and then you stare him down. Has he got a tech this year? No! He ain't ever got a tech in his life!


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[Assistant] He did that to himself when he made his statement. Oh the lights are too bright.


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[Assistant] I'ma be honest with you, still to this day, I deny that he actually said. I thought it was like one of them made up quotes. I need to go actually check the audio on that.


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[Assistant] Darius is the top 50 player. He definitely deserves to be on that list because the, the, the healthy version of Darius, if you actually take everything that he's done in his career, I think it's a lot better than a lot of some of those guys on that list for sure.


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[Assistant] Now, he for some odd reason got his blinders on. He needs to go back to being that playmaker that he once was. You know, I think he's gotten the scoring part now. He can still shoot threes. He's been shooting at a high clip these last few games. I just think his decision making isn't great because he's turning the ball over.


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[Assistant] In the NBA, you don't find too many guys that do it both offensively and defensively. He's a great defensive player offensively.


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[Assistant] Darius, even at Darius' best, he's always been a defensive liability. So I think both of them will eventually get to the top 50. I still think Darius should be in there, but Evan Mobley, I think he'll be there sooner or later.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, him too. That's the two that sticks out to me.


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[Assistant] Scotty Bars and Wagner should be uh, they should be Tyler Hero and uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know somebody that did it. His name is Giannis Antetokounmpo.


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[Assistant] No, the answer is no. The answer is yes. The answer is no. It's been, listen, in the past fifth, twenty-something years, there's been three guys, there's been three teams that's did it with one great player and a bunch of just role players. Dirk Nowinski did it.


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[Assistant] Kawhi Leonard did it, and Giannis Anthony Tecumpo did it. So, there it is.


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[Assistant] Yana should be number one, but outside of all of that, the rest of it, I'm cool with.


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[Assistant] For him to not stay there. I mean, listen, look at his stats from last year. Nah, don't get me wrong. He wants to come to the Cleveland Browns to play opposite of Miles Geard and they don't win a Super Bowl. Shame on the Cleveland Browns. They should blow up the whole thing because you got a dominant defensive line there that's actually very productive. You'll finally have your piece opposite of Miles Geard that can get things done. However, this scenario's not gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that Jonathan Allen is a partner. Yea, Jonathan Allen. I got me thinking of Josh Allen now. Jonathan Allen would be a great addition to the Cleveland Browns. The cap hit thing.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, him on the defensive line, him, Dalvin, Miles,


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[Assistant] And Alex Wright is fine. That would be a really good defensive line. That can be a productive defensive line. You got a player who's had production or that's been good in the NFL. He get with Jim Schwartz, he'll probably have his best season, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know if that cap hit is worth it. I don't know if he's worth it. What is, uh, do y'all so happen to have Dalvin Thomas' season stats from this year on Tag Bull?


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[Assistant] If they, if they went with this move, I wouldn't be mad at it. It would be okay. I don't think it's a home run. Like, if I'm gonna make a splash move, I wouldn't call this a splash move, if that makes sense. I think he'd come in here and be very productive. I think Joe Schwartz would get the best out of him. I think he instantly makes the defensive line better.


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[Assistant] But, I don't think that helps you get to the Super Bowl, but that makes sense.


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[Assistant] But I got, but that's a, that's a bigger splash move to me. Like that's a guy that's ultimately productive. That's a guy that you can think of just Pittsburgh. They got Cam Hayward who plays defensive tackle in, in my art and I'm


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[Assistant] TJ, now you getting miles with a really good guy that's a good pass rusher that's very productive in the interior.


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[Assistant] Now that does mean you can't be double team or triple team to that side anymore. Now you absolutely are upgrading things. Like that's, that, okay, that's worth that. But if it's not that...


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[Assistant] So tell her for... Jonathan Allen. I'd take it. They would never do that, but I would take that trade.


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[Assistant] I don't think I would make that trade. I'd make the trade. And not just because I like Wyatt.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't. I might say he, he, he got personal reasons.


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[Assistant] You know what this means? It's time for those Buckeyes to step up. Luke Whippler can definitely get the job done, okay? Now the problem is, the only reason- Can you play guard?


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[Assistant] I'm sure he could. He centers to play guard.


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[Assistant] I don't know if Nick Harris can. He's small. I'm talking about as far as like getting in there. I don't like, he ain't got to worry about responsibility. Like if you're a sinner, you know everything. Yeah. So I know that he could come in and know what he has. He knows what he has.


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[Assistant] If you tell, if Bill Callahan was still here, I'd tell you go ahead. But now that he gone and they got a new office in line, I don't know. Cause I don't know what to expect from this guy. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Well I said, I said if I'm Washington, I would not take that trade, but if they willing to do it, I would because...


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[Assistant] Tackle is the one. Tackle and center is the two that you can't, are the three positions you can't hire. Both tackle and center, you can hire the guard with good tackle play or center play. You can just have a double team on that side.


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[Assistant] Like that can happen. So that's why to me a guard is somebody that is


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[Assistant] You can move on from, you can trade. But that tackle position, as we know...


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[Assistant] Eka, Tomlinson. Oh, defensive tackle. I thought it was an offensive tackle. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd be fine with making that trade if I'm the Cleveland Browns because I'm gonna get a lot of productivity out of, a lot of production out of my defensive tackle position. Now that I got him and Dalvin and Miles, like that instantly makes my defensive line really freaking good. You might be swaying me.


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[Assistant] It is. It is. It is. What really gets me is when you said, when you brought up the fact that they gotta, you don't know how long they gonna continue to pay, I'm like...


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[Assistant] It's a little surprising to me because Russell is a really good dude. Uhm, great locker room guy, great motivator, always thinks positively.


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[Assistant] So from that standpoint, he's the guy that you want in your locker room. Uhm, I guess I'm not shocked at the...


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[Assistant] The play, even though his numbers is not bad at all, I think that Sean Payton looked at him and just said to himself, I can't get to where I really want to go with this guy. And a lot of the times, a lot of franchises and a lot of organizations


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[Assistant] Are handicapped because they gave out a bad contract. And they don't want to feel like...


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[Assistant] Like, I feel like, okay, so you lose the, you lose the locker room over stuff like this, like,


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[Assistant] It's like the Jets. The Jets, when they had Zach Wilson playing, and they know good and well Zach Wilson wasn't good, but he was the second pick of the draft, I gotta play him. Like...


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[Assistant] Continue to be handicapped or handcuffed to somebody just because of a bad contract. So I actually applaud Sean Payton for looking at it and saying I don't care about the money. I'm trying to win at this because you know at a head coach you only get like two or three years. I'm trying to win and I need me a guy that I think that I can win with and I don't think Russell's that guy.


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[Assistant] Moving on from, I actually applauded because a lot of coaches and a lot of organizations would have never made that move, so.


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[Assistant] Who pay, who traded for, for Russell Wilson? John Elway. John Elway's not there no more.


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[Assistant] Who was the head coach when Russell Wilson went there? Oh lord. Hackett. He's not there anymore.


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[Assistant] Take that. 85 million, a lot of money. But that's the thing though, they learned a valuable lesson out of this whole thing. The Broncos did. You never pay somebody before you let him, before he steps foot on the field. That's their own fault.


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[Assistant] You didn't see? Sherb did a hard 48, what he tells me.


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[Assistant] He did a hard 48. We played Call of Duty a couple of days ago. We laughed about it. He did a hard 48. I don't know what that means. What's a hard 48? He did 48 hours in jail.


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[Assistant] Situation he was in Seattle where they have a really great defense. They have a really good talent and skill positions. I just can't mess it up.


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[Assistant] I don't think he does a terrible job of messing things up. I just think that in big moments sometimes he doesn't make the plays that's axed of him.


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[Assistant] But I think he could be very good with Pittsburgh Steelers. They got a really good run game, same thing they had in Seattle. And they got some really good wide receivers, which same thing they had in Seattle. So I think he'd be fine. I just think it's about utilizing him correctly. That defense one wins a lot of their games. I mean, Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, something ridiculous like that, that I can't believe is a stat that he actually recorded. So if he has that type of success there with that defense, I believe Russell Wilson can do the same thing. He is significantly better than anybody they have.


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[Assistant] I would have to see what else they, what else, what other moves they make. Cause if you get, if you sign Russell Wilson, that means you still got your draft picks. And you have all your cast picks. And you got all your money because you take an event minimum.


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[Assistant] They can become deadly. They beef up that offensive line and they get themselves another corner outside opposite of Joey Porter.


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[Assistant] Mason Rudolph came in there and it wasn't just because of Mason Rudolph in there getting him the ball. He started running the ball. They brought attitude and I found the biggest difference, that's what changed the Browns there, the attitude on the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] When they went up to Seattle, not the Browns, Pittsburgh, they went to Seattle and they just like completely out physical Seattle. I was like, yea, this team can win a lot of games. They know the recipe and they know that they can out physical a lot of teams. That's been like their motto for the past whatever.


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[Assistant] He need to go, he need to go talk to him in the locker room for sure.


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[Assistant] And if you respect Arthur Smith as a play caller, he'll put him in the right position. Cause that's one, two things Justice never had. A really good head coach cause...


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[Assistant] Was Baker the guy? Nope. I still don't think he's the guy. No.


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[Assistant] He's a guy, he's about to be the guy in Tampa. Let's see if Tampa wins anything. Watch the playoffs.


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[Assistant] The answer is usually no. So I think Ross should make him a more dangerous threat for this upcoming season. Will Baker Mayfield win a Super Bowl in his career? I'd be shocked. I mean. David has a backup.


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[Assistant] What you mean? I know a guy who went further than all of those in that class.


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[Assistant] He went to the Super Bowl. And what did he contribute to that? He got the defense prepared. He held the clip. He got the defense prepared to go up against Patty but he was Patrick Mahomes in practice. Oh lord.


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[Assistant] It's cause it's Joe. Like, Joe and Jamar just make it so...


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[Assistant] It'd be funny to me because three of four is the coin flip.


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[Assistant] Yes. If they give Russ, that's a coin flip. You could easily- Because of the fact-


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[Assistant] Listen to me, right now. Listen to me right now, man. I understand that we...


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[Assistant] He said he's making a sizable donation. In the millions. In the millions. He would, is what he said. According to this report.


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[Assistant] And how do we know about this coach?


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[Assistant] I mean, if you decide to go with him, I'm not going to deny it because he's a good coach. I mean, if he went to the Final Four, he got a history of taking this team to like, conference player.


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[Assistant] Okay, I like that. I'm not, I'm not necessarily mad at that. I would have to see the other names that he gets the job over. I do know that Jake Dibler's doing an unbelievable job right now. I think he's 4-1 since taking over. And, you know, if he continues to win out, it's hard to go against a guy that


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[Assistant] Got chemistry there, that's, whose brother played there and all of those things. Uh, but if it's about the money and about the donations, then by all means. I, I just...


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[Assistant] I'm cool with it. I'll be cool with it. It wouldn't bother me.


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[Assistant] Is Savannah coming? That's the real question. Is Savannah going to be at the game?


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[Assistant] The only way, the only way that they, that Jake Bieber continue to win some games and he somehow slither his way into that tournament and win a game. Ty, I apologize.


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[Assistant] When I tell you last year, I was sitting, I'll never forget it, I was sitting at, uh, lowerfield.com, cause I was doing, uh, some stuff with Tipico, and,


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[Assistant] Everybody was like, you should bet on, uh, Fairleigh Dickinson against Purdue.


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[Assistant] I'm like, why would I do that? They're like, it's madness, just do it. And I did do it and I'm so mad.


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[Assistant] I'm so mad. I'm like, like Zach Edie should go for 40 points. They ain't even, I don't even think Fairleigh Dickinson had like a tall center. Like their dude was like 6'6", right? They had like 5 shooters. Last year?


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[Assistant] It is a hard one. I'm scared of it. I don't know how it is.


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[Assistant] I do think Donald, I mean not Donald, I think Darius goes with 20 plus, but.


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[Assistant] I feel like Jared Allen gets 15 points. I think Jared Allen gets 15. I think Evan Mobley will get around 12.


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[Assistant] I was going to say 20, 20, 20, and 15. I was going to say like 65 to 70.


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[Assistant] Well, to be honest with you, Jared Allen always scores. His problem is the rebound, and that's...


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[Assistant] Welcome everybody to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Earl Lapearl and Tyvis here with me today. What's up guys? What's up man? How you doing? I feel great. You ready to go?


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[Assistant] So why did he start calling you Chansey? I don't know why he calls you-


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know if it's about helping the offense. I think it's more about preventing injuries. You think that's just an excuse?


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[Assistant] Alright, we got a lot to get to today. Coming up later, we'll talk about the calves lost to the heat.


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[Assistant] We'll talk about some interesting comments from Tyrese Halliburton. A completely out of left field topic on the Guardians that Mike came up with. Where did you come up with this topic? Where did this come from?


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[Assistant] And obviously plenty to talk about in just a minute about the Browns signing of the Yonte Foreman and what that means or what it might mean for Nick Chubb that's coming up in a minute. First, right before the show, for whatever reason, I started looking up the Browns


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[Assistant] Giraffes under Andrew Berry. I don't know why he's doing that. I can't remember what spurred that on.


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[Assistant] It's like Baker, but there was somebody else they got that year. Denzel. And Denzel, right, right, right. But uhm, you look at the draft before that, I mean, they're just, it's just one crap.


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[Assistant] That was a bad, in fairness to the Browns, if I remember correctly, I think that was a pretty bad draft and all the guys taking after him were bad. I gotta double check that. I think they got like, I give them a little bit of a pass for that one, but I mean, man, there was some,


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[Assistant] I mean, most of the guys the Browns drafted in those years are not even in the NFL, let alone on the Browns. I gotta go, let's go back real quick before we move on to the Barkevius Mingo draft. That was 2013. Alright, so he was the... That's Joe Banner.


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[Assistant] I think it was still Joe Banner then, yeaah. Mingo was sixth overall.


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[Assistant] What? Yeaah. But. Who was after, can you name me some players that came after you? Okay, here's the top, this is as bad a top ten as I can ever remember. Okay. First overall pick in the draft, Kansas City, Eric Fisher. He, he stunk. By the way,


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[Assistant] Uh, top ten, Luke Jokel, another offensive lineman when second. He went to the Jaguars. Yes. Third pick, Dolphins, Deion Jordan, defensive end, remember him? Out of Oregon. He wasn't any good. The best player in the top ten was the fourth pick by the Eagles, Lane Johnson, who's been a great tackle. Fifth, Ezekiel Ansa, remember him, the Lions? He went to the Lions.


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[Assistant] The only active players from the first round of that draft. Lane Johnson went 4. Justin Pugh, an offensive lineman for the Giants, went 19. DeAndre Hopkins went 27. And Cordaro Patterson went 29.


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[Assistant] Gino Smith was the first quarterback off the board, second round through the Jets at 39. Ugh. Who did the Bengals take that year? Tyler Eifert. Decent player, but he was always hurt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they took Gio Bernard, who was one of my favorites, back in the day. He's a good change of pace back. Alright Mike, let's go. What do you got?


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[Assistant] Yep, well somebody that wasn't drafted that year but, uh, has just been signed by the Browns, that's Deontay Foreman, guys. Deontay Foreman's like six foot two thirty. He is big for a running back. Uh, first of all, before we get into what it means for the


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[Assistant] No, uh, he is not a pass catcher at all. He is a...


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[Assistant] Yes. Um, and he's a good back. He's a real solid back. Actually last year was really his worst year. It was a weird season for him because they signed him as a free agent and then they drafted Rashaun Johnson and they already had, um, Herbert. Herbert. Yes, Khalil Herbert.


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[Assistant] And early in the year, he was a healthy scratch. And then Johnson and Herbert both got banged up. In the middle of the year, he played, did a decent job.


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[Assistant] He's hard to bring down with a first tackle a la Nick Chubb. Now nobody's going to confuse him for Nick Chubb. He's nowhere new, near as talented, but he's the same mold, same style of running back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Pierre Strong is done. He's uh, at this point, he's their fifth running back. The fifth?


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[Assistant] Uh, Earl, when you heard the news of the odd deformant, was there a part of you that was, started to worry about Nick Chubb or Nick?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it'll be interesting to, I mean, the first thing I thought of,


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[Assistant] Obviously I like the move because he's a good player. But then the first thing I was like, oh, they gotta be concerned. Like we haven't heard anything about Nick Chubb. For weeks before free agency.


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[Assistant] We were having so many conversations on this show about our, you know, is there a chance he'd get cut? I think we all assumed he wouldn't, but like, is there a chance? Cause his cap number's big. We were talking about restructuring, new contract. There's been nothing on Nick Chubb. It's been dead silence. Now, maybe no news is good news, but, but I think there's a part, I'll speak from, just for myself.


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[Assistant] The season will have already started by the time it's a year, so it makes sense, at the very least, to sign a guy who would, who is essentially a poor man's Nick Jub to replace him to some degree.


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[Assistant] For part of the season. And, you know, you talk about Russian. Now, Nick Chubb...


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[Assistant] Then I saw the movie. Really? It's a good book. You're such a great reader. I'm not, I'm an okay reader. You read a lot. That was a really good book. You read a lot. I do, but mostly only at night.


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[Assistant] Even though I was reading an article, because whenever a movie is based on a reel,


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[Assistant] Let's say he's, let's say all three of those guys are healthy. Hines, Ford, and Devante, uh, Foreman. Uh, and then Chubb comes back.


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[Assistant] Yes. Not, he's out. Yes. You know, so if anything they cut him or like trade him for seventh round pick or something.


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[Assistant] Right, and, and Hines, I like what he can bring. Yeaah. But I don't even know if he's 100% certain to make the team. Like he didn't play last year, he's not young. Well, I'll tell you what, Dave.


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[Assistant] Because we've been very lucky in Cleveland with Nick Chubb because most, well, it doesn't even have to be lucky. Most teams in the NFL don't have a clear


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[Assistant] Chubb can't start the season, and even if Chubb has helped, even let's say he's active for week one, they're still not going to give him a full load of carries week one. So I think if Nick Chubb is on the Pup List,


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[Assistant] I agree with you, I think Ford technically is the starter, but I think the Ate Forman probably gets 12 carries and, and Ford gets 10 or 12 and then a few catches.