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[Assistant] Okay, that's not far, and once again, I had him as my first guy in tier 4, so I mean, flipping one spot is, is right online. That's our top 6 guys.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, so guys- When we tweet out this graphic later, we're gonna put headshots, but for the sake of Anthony updating us live. Okay, so-


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[Assistant] So I'll go Teller, who I obviously already mentioned. I had Emerson in this tier too. I think he is a bona fide, could be number one corner on half the teams in football. He just happens to be a number two here because of Denzel Ward. I also put Joel Botonio, so both guards.


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[Assistant] I had Dustin Hopkins as my last guy in tier 4. A guy that Bull always likes to pronounce his name wrong, we do our drafts on Fridays during football season, but he was an all pro caliber kicker last season.


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[Assistant] Can I ask a question real quick on Tomlinson? Cause I didn't have him.


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[Assistant] In my next tier either, I'll be honest. I had him in my honorable mention list. You seem up close and personal more. Obviously the defensive line, especially the interior, took a giant jump from 2022 to 2023.


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[Assistant] No, but just you seeing, you being at every game, seeing them way more than we do. We don't, we're not even at training camp because we're obviously here during the show.


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[Assistant] Who I think is crucial to the Browns success this season. Will he be a starter?


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[Assistant] I hope so. I don't know how you bring him back off the bench. I had Delpa and I actually had Alex Wright over as a Darius Smith.


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[Assistant] I am probably a little too high on Alex Wright as a prospect. I think what I saw at the end of last season has a chance to be exactly what you want opposite of Myles Garrett. I know they brought back Sedaria so he may not get the snaps he needs but I think Alex Wright when it's all said and done will be the Brown's second leading sack guy in 2024.


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[Assistant] Well that means Chubb, Judy, and Delpit for sure locked in.


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[Assistant] But he's not a young guy, like he, and you're right, it does happen. But he wasn't that good before last year. But sometimes you put it together and you found something. It could be. And I just, but whatever, I'll drop Dustin Hopkins.


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[Assistant] If the choice is for you were Dewand, Pochich, and Jed Wills, three offensive linemen for one spot, who do you think will have the best season of those? Well, I think between those three offensive linemen.


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[Assistant] We had a guy, real quick, we had Kyle Krabs on yesterday who was a draft, a draft guy. And we have Dane Bruegler from the Athletic coming on Monday, we'll ask him again. And he said, all these running backs are on one year deals.


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[Assistant] All of them. For not one-year deals, but Chubbs coming in the last year. Ford would be the only one. Ford's the only one who's not. Yeah. Foreman's on a one-year deal. Hines on a one-year deal. Pierre Strong, probably a practice squad guy. So at some point, if you draft the running back, it's more.


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[Assistant] That's the risk with all those deals. I mean, if it hits, it's genius. That's right. And if it doesn't, it looks terrible and it's really hard to get out of without some serious consequences.


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[Assistant] Before we talk Cavs real quick, the NBA has leveled a lifetime ban on John T. Porter for gambling on his own games. We talked about that story a couple weeks ago.


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[Assistant] Who's the most gambled on guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's Michael Porter Jr.'s younger brother. Right. He plays for the Toronto Raptors. He's like their ninth, their ninth or tenth guy on the bench. Yep. And two separate times this season.


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[Assistant] On FanDuel, he was the single most bet on player in the entire NBA. And the unders in both of those games hit.


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[Assistant] So they launched an investigation and according to Woj a few minutes ago he has been leveled a lifetime ban per the statement from the league.


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[Assistant] The league's investigation found that prior to the Raptors March 20th game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA better. Another individual with whom Porter associated with and knew to be an NBA better subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay


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[Assistant] 1.1 million dollars wagering that, cause you can bet on anybody and literally anything now. In addition, from January through March of 2024 while traveling with the Rafters or their G League affiliate,


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[Assistant] Think about that! And you're making a million dollars in the NBA.


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[Assistant] It doesn't make any sense. Some people are stupid. If you wanna gamble on the Cavs Magic series though, the Cavs are minus 195 to win the series. The Magic plus 146 on FanDuel.


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[Assistant] I know the question Aunt wanted to ask for this specific topic today is who should start at the three?


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[Assistant] Last year when the Cavs lost to the Knicks in the playoffs, it wasn't their defense. They actually held New York to 8 points below their season average in terms of points per game. They just couldn't score the ball. At the end of the day in the playoffs, you have to be able to make shots. Now Isaac Okoro,


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[Assistant] Didn't go so well for him, or anyone else on the cast.


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[Assistant] We have to see if he will make and take those shots against Orlando.


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[Assistant] You don't have that issue with Max Trues. You know he's capable of taking, making, because in the first round, he's just waking up. Miami's used to playing deep into the Eastern Conference playoffs. He was a starter on our finals team last year. You hit the big part of this though. As good as Isaac has been against Paolo Banquero, and pull up 208 when you get a chance.


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[Assistant] He's been the single best primary defender against Bankero in the entire NBA this season. In their three matchups, he held Palo as the primary defender. He was two of ten shooting, six points, he got a steal off him. You can't do much better than that.


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[Assistant] But, if you play Isaac on the floor with Evan Mobley and Jared Allen, you have no spacing to operate with.


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[Assistant] And Orlando's defense, they finished with the third best defensive rating in the entire NBA, 110.3.


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[Assistant] You're going to ask Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell, who will be the two shortest players on the court, to go in and attack against Jaylen Suggs, who's a terrific primary on-ball defender.


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[Assistant] Jonathan Isaac, who might be the single best defensive player in the league. And three other guys who are 6'8 or above. And there's just not space to operate. You're gonna struggle so mightily to score against half court sets if you have three non-shooters on the court. So what I would do is I'm starting streus.


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[Assistant] But my first rotation, whether it's at the 6 minute mark, the 7 minute mark, whatever JB wants to do,


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[Assistant] When you take Moby out, or you take Alan out, it's usually Moby's the first sub. It's Isaac who replaces him.


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[Assistant] And then you could keep the spacing because you still have strufs and a curl on the floor together.


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[Assistant] But that way you only have two non-shooters, and that's with the assumption.


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[Assistant] If Isaac makes shots, it changes everything. But I just can't start a series and I can't start a rotation until I know Isaac will step up and take his chance.


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[Assistant] And also by the closing minutes, we will have a very good feel of, okay, his shots going down. At that point, Isaac will have played 20-25 minutes.


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[Assistant] Is he confident enough to step up and take those shots? So you have more information. It'll just be interesting to see how they start.


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[Assistant] And kinda match up. Cause I assume if it is Max, which he had his first career triple double in the regular season finale, he's had nine or more assists in three of his last seven games. His playmaking has stepped up to a level I didn't frankly think was in his game. He's also done a really good job rebounding. I think rebounding this year is going to play a huge role in who comes out on top.


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[Assistant] This is a guy who on paper should be able to keep Palo in check. Didn't have tremendous success this year in the games. Palo had 42 in the first contest. It was a bunch of different defenders making everything. But Palo's the guy who's going to get his shots. He's at the contest.


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[Assistant] He's 6'10", strong, athletic, crafty, like, he's gonna get his open looks. He's crafty. You just have to make sure there's a hand in his face.


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[Assistant] This is not what we do. You want to talk about playoff experience by the way? And this was something that killed the Cavs last season. Danny Cunningham tweeted this out this morning. Orlando's roster has total 91 playoff games.


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[Assistant] That's all of them. And Joe Ingalls, who doesn't play a ton, has about half of those games. Cleveland's roster...


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[Assistant] That's 359 playoff games of experience now. You could also say some of that's Tristan Thompson, who's not going to be a huge factor. Marcus Morris. You take some of those guys out, you're looking at essentially Joe Ingalls outside of Orlando.


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[Assistant] Nobody. Yeaah. The Cavs without Tristan Thompson and Marcus Morris, well now you still have George Niang, uh, Max Deuce, and Donovan Mitchell, who all have legitimate, legitimate, legitimate playoff experience.


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[Assistant] Orlando presents a lot of the same challenges that they faced against New York last season in a little bit of a different fashion, but they are by no means a pushover.


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[Assistant] When somebody dies that like, you're like, eh, good riddance. Yeaah. I like Juice. I like Juice on Twitter. He was a good follower on Twitter. He had some good stories. Yeaah. You know, he did, he tried to do some really good things and you know, with Jim Brown past, he shared some good information there. So Juice, Juice was. You're okay with that.


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[Assistant] No, it depends on, depends. If it was in 94, if it was after February 16th of 94, I was on earth. Oh, well it was June. Oh, I was here then! Haha! Yeaah! I was, you know what I was doing? Getting a bottle of milk at the time while he was getting chased.


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[Assistant] Six to eight with the opportunity to make it all back. Yeaah. Six to eight, yeaah. I mean that's a...


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[Assistant] That's a fair deal for somebody. It shows you that they got a ton of respect for Nick Chubb because they coulda, it coulda got worse. Like if they was really cutthroat about it, they coulda like offered him really less than that, but. Especially now, Tyvis, because.


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[Assistant] They really, they show you how much they really do value Nick Chubb and the person that he is, that they, you know, give him a pretty fair deal, still let him earn a lot of his money back, which


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[Assistant] I think he's still, if he starts week one, I think he will earn a lot of it back. If he doesn't, it'll be a tough hill or a tough climb, but I think they want to keep Nick Chubb in the orange or brown for the rest of his year, uh, rest of his career. I'll be curious to see when he's back.


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[Assistant] But you, but Foreman at least, when you think about it, alright, it's just like the, it's just like how I feel about uh, what's the court, Tyler Huntley. You gotta have somebody in there that models what your starter is. That's right. Foreman is that guy, Jerome Foreman. Exactly. So let's see, let's get you in there, work you through this offense.


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[Assistant] We're gonna imagine that you Nick Chubb cause you're the closest we can get to Nick Chubb in this office. We need to see what it looks like for timing and stuff like that. So I think that's why they went and got Huntley and I think that's why they got Foreman. So he can, so when the other two are healthy and ready to go, the office already knows how to react to it because it's the time.


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[Assistant] If they would have cut him, would that have like wiped the hit on the cap, the cap hit, period? Uh, I believe so.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, yeah, if anybody else, they probably would, uh, but also they


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[Assistant] Well the thing, the thing about him is, let's go back to a couple of years ago when we was all complaining about the touches, the 20 touches. The reason that they didn't was to extend his career. So now maybe he could go into his 30s and still be the same.


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[Assistant] He's just, he's just used to it. His body's used to that.


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[Assistant] Let me ask y'all two a question. Let's go on and say Nick Chubb misses the first four games of the season. Right. Okay. What does he need by the end of the season for you to feel comfortable for the Browns to extend him?


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[Assistant] Like I said last year, they should do the pistol.


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[Assistant] I hope Deshawn and Judy and everybody just...


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[Assistant] Does well this season. I really do. Because I done put a lot of things at ease. I think I done clear up a lot of pictures moving forward.


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[Assistant] Clears up a lot of stuff heading forward. If he don't, man.


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[Assistant] When you, a lot of teams still are looking for the next guy, to the cheaper guy.


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[Assistant] And you know that once you pay that quarterback, it messes up the rest of the roster. So if you can get somebody that can be as effective, because at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] What last year showed you is, up until the last game, is that the coach really is pretty dang good. He gets the best out of all his players, right?


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[Assistant] Listen, I think it's gonna come into a thing where T's gonna leave, Jamar Chase is gonna get mad, and he gonna leave, and Joe gonna say, you know what, y'all let all my boys leave and then take care of none of it, I'm out. I think he's gonna be fine if T leaves.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think in a couple of weeks, right?


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[Assistant] April 15th. I mean they'll have a rookie mini camp after the draft. That's when it's gonna happen. The rookie mini camp? It's gonna happen. Why? Why then as opposed to now? Cause everybody in the building again and you know.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he is, but like, to get the team riled up, like, hey everybody, this is going to be our coach for the next blah blah year. I just signed an extension, everybody go, hey, yeah, coach of TV.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was nice. I always thought they had a great relationship. The only time that I ever thought that it was something crazy or wild was the injury that I'ma play Sunday and then Sunday came around.


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[Assistant] You know, but another thing, you know how...


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[Assistant] Wow, maybe you don't know, but usually when it's time for players to get paid, some of the coaches go to bat, like, I need that guy, take care of my guy. For example,


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[Assistant] Debo Samuel when he was in with the 49ers. You know, he, Kyle Shanahan really wanted him to stay. So Kyle was like talking to the upstairs like, I need this guy. Give him his money. I need this guy. Once things got frustrated, Debo did what he did and blah blah blah blah blah. But ultimately he ended up getting paid. Same thing can go flipped.


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[Assistant] You know, for the players, every since this offseason, every player has come out and talked about how great of a coach Kevin Stefanski is. From Deshaun, Joe.


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[Assistant] When we had D'Anthony Bailon, everybody has talked about


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[Assistant] For players, hey, we need to get our guy paid. We need to make sure that he stays here. And I think that's what you've been seeing. And it's very, I won't say it's rare, but it's special when you got players that's bought into a coach that believe in everything that a coach is doing. Because it's been times where we've been like,


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[Assistant] He's lost the locker room, even with the Baker stuff, and the Old Dale stuff. He's like, oh, he don't know what he's doing. But on the outside looking in, that's what it may look like, but on the inside, everybody has so much respect for Kevin Stefanski, and they just want him to stay.


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[Assistant] So I think this has been one of those operations where all the players is like, we gotta do whatever we can to make sure this guy stays and everybody needs to know how special of a coach this guy is. And they've been successful at doing that. Now they just need to put the pin to the pad.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny about that? I just thought about, as you said that, I thought about the Browns draft the receivers in the third round.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of good. Listen, defense was pretty good around here for like many years.


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[Assistant] The G-dub thing to mess me up. That's cause I got personal ties there.


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[Assistant] Okay, you threw me off with the mad genie. Let's go, Titus. Why would you do that? Let's go! I think he was an excellent coach. I'll take Chris. I'll take Chris. Oh. Alright. Chris Tabor.


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[Assistant] Nah, it's just cause I don't, even though he's done a really good job in kick, I need, I'm a return guy. I need to see a big return. Alright, finally the GM.


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[Assistant] Wow, and Lamar Jackson. Sashi Brown. Cause he hired, he gave me an OTA job, so. Sashi Brown was awful. That's my pick. He hired me.


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[Assistant] Hmm. G.M. interns? G.M. interns. Oh yeah, okay. De'Quel Jackson, that's it. Nope, I ain't, I'm not giving it to him. Nope. Whoa. Pause. All right, Mike, what do we got next?


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[Assistant] The reason I picked the Chargers is because, in Cleveland first of all, it got to be in Cleveland. One, because I think that it's a lot of guys that's working back from injury and the Chargers got a new head coach and he's trying to establish his culture how he wants to play. So I think the Browns.


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[Assistant] It's a nice tune-up game for them to get into the season, get hit they groove, against a team that has really good talent. It's not like if you beat the Chargers, people are gonna say,


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[Assistant] Uh, you beat the Chargers, who cares about that? No, that's a very talented team, and if Jim Harbaugh gets them right where they need to be, that's a team that can do well in the playoffs. So I picked the Chargers for week one, I think that's this game that a lot of people will come to see, a lot of hype around it, and it's a great competition for guys to


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[Assistant] All I'ma tell you here is, it's a different league. Very true. It's a different league.


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[Assistant] That right there, what you just put up, that's one of the ones that I can see them lose in week one.


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[Assistant] Man. He could have came up with something right now.


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[Assistant] I can't think of another set of


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[Assistant] No, he jinxed it cause he, Tuesday we was talking about Tristan McKenzie started. He was like, they got one of the worst.


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[Assistant] They got one of the worst batting lineups in, in their, in MLB. They can't get in. When they're healthy, they're actually, their lineups isn't terrible when they're healthy. That's what he said. He was like, well, right now nobody's healthy. They're not good at all right now, blah, blah, blah. And ever since he said that statement, they start racking off. I know.


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[Assistant] I don't care. You take it. Where are the guardians in the home run?


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[Assistant] That's crazy, I would never want to have that type of riff.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. No, he's saying it's either for a picture or a series. It's either a picture or starting a picture. Yes.


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[Assistant] Six strikeouts. I got your back Tristan. Six strikeouts. Yankees. Put me on camera. Six strikeouts. Take the over. Fan duel.


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[Assistant] So, so when they build this dome, should they actually like...


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[Assistant] Is it 5 yards longer? I know it's wider because you can feel it when you check in the 7 cut.


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[Assistant] This is what I'll tell you. If the CFL paid as much as the NFL, more players will go to the CFL. Why's that? Because it's just better.


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[Assistant] What is better about it? Weather sucks. No, I don't talk about the weather. Just the play. You know it's three downs instead of four. Oh really? So that means that they're passing on all, usually all the time. If you're a DB and a wide receiver and a quarterback, the CFL is kind of where you are.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think you gotta have four Canadians on the field. Boy, that's racist.


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[Assistant] Well, the first thing I took away was he need to, he need to let that mask thing go. I mean, I always knew that it was going to take him a while to adjust. And it's just that mask, it really blocks your vision and stuff what you want to do. So him getting rid of the mask made him better from that standpoint. But I seen a guy who,


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say he was quite as explosive as he used to be, but you can tell that when he dribbled the ball and he got low, he can make more moves. He was able to go behind his back.


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[Assistant] But as far as getting to the hold and dunking, like I don't think he's there, but I think right now he's trying to figure out, he's figuring like, I'm not going to be 100% for the playoffs, so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to be effective. And last night,


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[Assistant] Yes, it was the Memphis Grizzly, but he at least showed you, like, I can still do some things. I mean, I think he shot 50% from Trey. I think he was 5 for 10 from Trey. Had 28, 29 points. Still was able to hit some dimes. So, I like what I've seen from him. Obviously, you can't really take a lot from the rest of the team, because it's the Grizzlies, and they're terrible.


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[Assistant] But from Donovan's performance, I like that if he can do that, he needs to get a little bit more healthy because he's gonna be, he's gotta go to the hold in the playoffs. But hey, it's a good performance by him.


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[Assistant] I don't have Snapchat. No Snapchat. I thought that's for like 20 year olds. Yeah, it is. Is Snapchat for 20 year olds? Yeah. Instagram is... My kids want Snapchat. I keep telling them that. No.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's all I'm saying. Oh, the trade off better be a Super Bowl. Listen, I was a young rookie, and I had this player tell me, the money gonna make me leave every time. That's exactly right. Because these owners is getting paid off us. I don't disagree. I don't care where it is, the money is making me go every time. Maximize your earnings.


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[Assistant] Here we are on a Monday. It's Eclipse Day. It's Men's Final Four today. And most importantly, for our purposes, it's the home opener for the Cleveland Guardians opening day in Cleveland. It was a normal commute this morning, but it's going to be packed today. Gene Bush and Earl are with us. What's up, guys? What's up, man? You guys ready to go?


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[Assistant] It's a major failure by me. It's a major failure by Earl. Neither one of us wore guardians gear. It's a terrible job.


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[Assistant] We dropped the ball. By the way, I can't imagine, and by...


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[Assistant] That I would yesterday watch baseball find, which I did watch baseball. But I also watched women's college basketball and soccer. I was watching soccer yesterday morning believe it or not. Really? Yes. Why?


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[Assistant] There was no other sports on. I had like 20 minutes to kill. I was waiting. My son and I were going to the gym and I was waiting for him.


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[Assistant] Uh, like get ready basically. So I had like 20 minutes to kill and I put on some soccer for a little bit. And I act, it was Manchester United against, uhm, Liverpool. I can't believe I remember that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I've been a little more, a little interested in soccer from, because we're re-watching Ted Lasso and I don't know, anyway. So, I saw, and I have no idea the name of the guy who scored the goal.


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[Assistant] But I saw one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in a sporting event. This guy on Manchester United scored a goal to make it 2-1. Eventually the game ended 2-2 with a match I think it's called.


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[Assistant] But the guy, you guys gotta google this. If we can get this video.


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[Assistant] So you saw the goal it gave Manchester United the lead? I will go find the video for you. I can't remember the name of the guy. I think he's... I don't know where he's from.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. He was a black guy. I think he might have had an African name. I don't remember now. I can't remember. Definitely wasn't Bruno Fernandez.


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[Assistant] It was the second goal for Manchester United that gave them the 2-1 lead. Who was that guy?


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[Assistant] Well, maybe you got two, but this, this goal, it wasn't that it was even that long. It's just the way the ball moved. I was like, I didn't know the ball could move like that. Bend. You got that bend it like Beckham. Yeaah. It's crazy. But anyway, you guys look for it. But, but uhm, one other thing I wanted to make note today, guys, before we get into the Guardians. Today is the 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's record


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[Assistant] For the all time home run, to become the all time home run king, 1974, there it is, and it's a very famous video, uh, the audio is also very famous too, but remember, this, two fans ran on the field, and


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[Assistant] I can't imagine what was going through Hank Aaron's mind because it's two young white guys. He was getting death threats.


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[Assistant] In the mail, obviously there was no, like, you know, cell phones in those days, of course. But he was getting death threats. I think he got more mail in the... Now, he broke the record, it was early in the season.


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[Assistant] So at the end of the 73 season, he had been one away from tying Beirut. So the hate mail started in like,


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[Assistant] I dunno, the summer of 73, and he was still getting hate mail of course in April of 74. Apparently he got more mail during that stretch of time. Now, a lot of people were saying good things, but even if it's 10% with hate mail and threatening you, it's pretty awful.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he apparently got more mail in that stretch of time than any non-politician in American history at that point.


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[Assistant] Because when I was a kid, we, we all talked about, I mean, not that, I mean,


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[Assistant] I, I was probably like 1979, 1980 when I first started being able to like have conversations about baseball. Yea, yea. Which wasn't that long after Hank Aaron, which is weird. 74, I don't know, it feels like it was so old, but I was, you know, I was 3 years old when Hank Aaron, or almost 3 years old. Yea, yea. When Hank Aaron broke the record, and it was,


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[Assistant] At the time, you know, steroids tainted everything. And it made the records for a lot of people not as meaningful. But when I was a kid, we all knew.


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[Assistant] So, so Hank Aaron was one home run away from tying Babe Ruth when the season started in 1974.


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[Assistant] And the Braves were opening the season in Cincinnati with a three game series. And then they were coming home.


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[Assistant] And the, the owner of the Braves, I don't know who, I can't, I don't know the name of the owner, but he did not want Hank Aaron to play in Cincinnati because he didn't want him to, they didn't want him to break the record in Cincinnati. Wow. And the commissioner stepped in and said, he's got to play at least two of those three games. And so he played.


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[Assistant] And Hank Garner, I mean, Hank Garner was pretty old at this point. I mean, obviously, I think 39 or whatever, but he played two of the first, two of the three games that he had one-on-run to Tyrew. And then this was the first game, the first, I think it was the home opener.


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[Assistant] The Braves, if I remember correctly. And, uh, anyway.


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[Assistant] I mean, look at Aaron Judge, how many career hormones does he have? And he's already in his thirties, so I mean...


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[Assistant] A lot of those records are never gonna be broken. Speaking of crazy records, one more thing before we get in the mix. This pitcher, Ronel Blanco of the Astros. This is a guy who's been a nobody. Just a journeyman pitcher, nothing.


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[Assistant] He had, he pitched a no hitter his first start of the year, and yesterday, he pitched another five and two thirds no hit innings before it got broken up. Going back to last year, he pitched 16 consecutive no hit innings, which is tied for the second most since 1961 in all of baseball. And this is just like a random dude.


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[Assistant] We got to figure it out. Somebody got to check him out. Yeah, maybe he's taking stuff. I don't know. Anyway. This is crazy. Mike, it's opening day. What do you got for us?


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[Assistant] Well let's hear from, we haven't heard much from Earl so far, so let's hear from Earl first. Earl, how do you balance the excitement of opening day, the excitement of 7 and 2?


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[Assistant] I think you, you said it best. That baseball...


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[Assistant] One injury doesn't crush you in baseball like it does in the other sports because the quarterback is


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[Assistant] So much more important than anybody else in football. And the superstar is so much more important than everything else in basketball.


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[Assistant] Right? Look, without LeBron James, the Lakers is the, you know, one of the five worst teams in baseball. And they still have another great player. They still would be awful. Even now.


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[Assistant] Right? You look at, you look at the Celtics. They lose Jason Tatum, their season's probably over. Chalk it up. Right? And, but that's just not the case in baseball. In fact, and obviously I'm not trying to say this team's as good because it's not, but in 2016, outside of Corey Kluber, the, the Guardians entire starting rotation was hurt in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] On paper, not only did they have no business winning the World Series, they had no business winning any round of the playoffs. But you don't win games on paper. That's the great thing.


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[Assistant] Right. He and Kluber were unhittable. And it didn't even matter, they had nobody else besides those two guys, really. And, and that's the thing. So is there a replacement for Shane Bieber? No.


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[Assistant] There's no legitimate replacement for Shane Bieber. We'll talk about some of the veteran options, but there are no good ones. There's zero


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[Assistant] All the Guardian's best prospects at Pitcher are either on the team, hurt,


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[Assistant] Or so early in their career that they can't help a major league player. There is no, there is no Gavin Williams, Logan, Logan Allen, Tanner Bybee ready to come to the big leagues. None. That guy doesn't exist for the guardians.


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[Assistant] And we'll talk more about that later, but this does not spoil opening day for me, because as you said, Earl,


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[Assistant] Everybody's got injuries. Pitching injuries in baseball and through the roof. The Braves just lost their best starter, Spencer Strider.


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[Assistant] He's the best pitcher in baseball. Now they haven't said he's out for the year yet, but he's got an elbow issue and they're shutting him down. So the odds are he'll end up missing the season. Even if he doesn't, he's going to miss three months. Garrett Cole, the second best pitcher in baseball. He's missing at least the first two months of the season and we'll see he's got an elbow issue too. They're hoping to have him back in June.


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[Assistant] Good luck with that. So there's excellent pitchers all over baseball. Now I get it. The Braves and the Yankees are deeper teams than the Guardians. They have bigger payrolls. They're better teams on paper.


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[Assistant] But, the good thing for the Guardians is they don't have to compete in their divisions with those teams. They're competing with a Royals team that is better, but flawed. They're competing with a White Sox team that's gonna be one of the worst in baseball. They're competing with a, you know, a nice young Tiger team that'll probably be with them for much of the season, and a Twins team that's fine, but they got their own injuries.


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[Assistant] They lost their best young hitter Royce Lewis. He's gonna be out for I think at least two months.


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[Assistant] And so no, it's not going to spoil the excitement we've had all weekend in Cleveland from the women's tournament, which we'll talk about later.


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[Assistant] Uh, you'll have Mackenzie and because of the rain out, everybody got pushed back so you won't need another starter till next weekend or so.


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[Assistant] Either him or someone else that we're not thinking about right now. Yeah, I mean, and this hot start that they're off to offensively, they've got to continue it. You know, they've got to be


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[Assistant] Without Bieber, their starting pitching's not going to be as good as we thought. There's no way around it. So the hitting's got to be even better. Uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, you bring up a good point. I think, first of all, Jimenez is already a platinum glove winner, which means the best fielder in the entire league.


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[Assistant] Rokio is special defensively. I, you know, for those who may have seen the game on Saturday, they made a couple of amazing, I mean, the twins only had two hits in that game on Saturday, but they had a million base runners because there was a lot of walks and there was a couple of hit by pitches. That glove tossing he had, aw, that was, I was like, oh, I didn't know he had it like that. We don't have that clip bike, do we? Oh!


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[Assistant] If you haven't seen it, what G was just talking about, Jimenez, it's first and second, nobody out. So the twins were threatening. It was a close game. There was a ground ball up the middle. Jimenez gets it. He's facing center field and he flipped it backwards to Rokeo, who has to dive, keep his foot on the base, and he did it!


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[Assistant] Yesterday I was talking to my in-laws who were in town visiting and, uh,


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[Assistant] I was saying how, and I've admitted this before, my first four or five years working in Cleveland,


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[Assistant] Uhm, my goal was to get back to New York. Not that I didn't like Cleveland, it was just...


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[Assistant] All I was thinking about was working on the radio in New York. That was my goal.


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[Assistant] And somewhere along the line, my goal changed. I didn't get an opportunity in New York early, and then I stopped caring, and now, and my wife and I were talking about it, we were like, yeaah, we're never leaving here.


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[Assistant] Oh, we knew that. We've not wanted to move for a number of years at this point because now we're ingrained in the community and my son's got all his friends. I don't want to, at this point it would be hard for him if we moved to another part of the country. You know, he's got all his buddies. So I was like, we're never gonna, but we were just telling my in-laws about that. They kind of knew.


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[Assistant] And part of them, and I was like, I always wanted to get back to New York early in my career. And I was like, the only thing I miss in New York


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[Assistant] So I think trade wise, I ruled out trade because, uh, unless it's a trade for like a journeyman, you know, an organization that has a possible starting pitcher, a triple A, that's a veteran where they could trade nothing for it. Teams don't, it's very rare to make a trade of significance this early in the season.


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[Assistant] And I think the Guardians want to let the season play out a little bit before they might even consider something like that. So I ruled it out. Uhm, in terms of their minor league system, I've mentioned it briefly before, there are no answers, folks. There is no, at least no obvious answer. If you look at their, their, any list of their best prospects, pitching-wise,


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[Assistant] First of all, most of their top prospects are hitters at this point.


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[Assistant] Their best pitching prospect is Daniel Espino. He's out for the year.


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[Assistant] Their next best pitching prospect who's not even that highly thought of is a guy named Joey Cantillo.


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[Assistant] Who is gonna be out for two months. He could have been a guy that could have possibly helped him, but he's out two months, he has a hamstring injury.


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[Assistant] The rest of their better pitching prospects are all pitching in like A-Ball. They're like guys who are going to help them in two, three years. These guys are not ready to pitch in the big leagues. So the rest of their AAA starters are Ben Lively, the journeyman they signed before the season. Xavier, uh, uh, Nady who we saw, you know.


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[Assistant] That's true. He's, you know, we've seen him a little bit. There's nothing special there. There are other guys pitching in AAA. I can't think of this one guy. They have one guy who was their opening day starter, I think, in AAA. He's given up about 16 runs in 8 innings in AAA. I don't think we want to see him.


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[Assistant] So I think the best option if you want to just try to find somebody maybe to eat some innings at the veteran pitcher is to go for the dregs that are left on the free agent market. Do they have any potential to stretch anybody out from the bullpen?


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[Assistant] Yes, Hunter Gaddis was the starter last year, but he's pitched so well in the pen that I don't think they want to move him because their pen is beat up.


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[Assistant] And so, but yeaah, I mean, he's pitched well so far, you're right. He might be the guy they turn to. I don't know that they're gonna go outside of the organization. Because at this point, some of the guys I'm gonna mention have been a lot better in their careers than Tyler Beatty. But they're all at the end of their careers. Now, the youngest guy in this bunch, and we'll save Trevor Bauer for last. The youngest guy in this bunch is Noah Sindegard.


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[Assistant] Who five, six years ago was an elite pitching prospect. His first couple of years in the majors, he looked like he was going to be a superstar.


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[Assistant] Injury and whatever has led to his complete downfall. The fact that he's 31 and doesn't have a job is amazing considering how highly he was thought of coming out of the minors and how great he pitched his first two or three years in the majors. He was here last year.


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[Assistant] And he struggled last year, but as recently as 2022, just two years ago, he was still a serviceable starter in 2022. Now last year he had a 5 ERA.


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[Assistant] But if you look at some of the advanced numbers on him, he probably should have had something like a 420, 430 year rate. Which I could live with, with my fifth starter, the guy like that. He likes to play in small markets. Cleveland's a small market, you know, comparatively.


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[Assistant] So, that's about, now, he only needs 13 strikeouts to reach 3,000 all the time, or 20, something like that. He needs a handful of strikeouts to get to 3,000.


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[Assistant] Well, the Trevor Bauer one is interesting. There's gonna be some people that are horrified by that idea.


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[Assistant] Just like there were some people that were horrified by Deshaun Watson. Now, we know for a fact certain things Trevor Bauer did. We don't know, nobody's been able to prove they were non-consensual, but there are a lot of people that even if what he did was consensual are, you know, gonna be bothered by that.


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[Assistant] He rubbed a lot of teammates the wrong way. Unlike the Sean Watson, Trevor Bauer, not that there aren't players that like Trevor Bauer, but he wasn't like universally liked like the Sean Watson was. Trevor Bauer was not. He was, he's a bully and he's a jerk.


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[Assistant] All that, and I can't stand the guy. He is more than any other athlete playing today. I hate him more than probably any athlete today. And yet, I would leave my personal aside.


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[Assistant] We'll ask Zach about it. I'm sure Zach's gonna say there's no way they'll ever sign him. I don't think there's any way they'd ever sign him, but do know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'm sure at this point he'd probably do whatever it took to play. You never know with him because he's a wacky guy, but I guess he'd probably be a good teammate. I just can't imagine the organization was done with him.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be a lot of people killing them. I won't be one. I understand why people would kill that move. I get it. Five years ago, I would have been one of those people. I've changed my thoughts on this, as I've talked about a lot with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] We're doing well, buddy. You excited about opening day? You don't get that excited. You're kinda like Jason. There's not that ton of emotion.


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[Assistant] Zach, before we get to opening day topics, we were just having, because we talked about Bieber and we've talked, I brought up some veterans maybe they could sign like a Zach Renke or Johnny Quato or something.


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[Assistant] Obviously Trevor Bauer is going to always come up. I, I, I, in my opinion there's 0% chance the Guardians would sign him.


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[Assistant] Would you agree with Zero, or do you think there's any remote possibility that the Guardians would consider him?


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[Assistant] Zach, we'll wrap it up with two questions here. On a scale of one to ten, how much are you buying, the Guardians offense being real? And what player are you most pleasantly surprised by, hitter or pitcher, through the first nine games?


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[Assistant] I think that's fair. I'm right there with you. Zach, great stuff. Enjoy opening day and the next episode of the Ultimate Cleveland Guardian Show live tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. We will have it for you right here on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Universe. Thanks, Zach. Alright, don't stare at the sun, guys. Good advice.


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[Assistant] And we need your help. We want to get the 40,000 by our anniversary, our two year anniversary, which is what? Five weeks away?


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[Assistant] So it's a little, it's about four and a half weeks. We gotta get roughly 870-something subscribers in the next four weeks plus. Come on! Come through, let's get the 40,000.


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[Assistant] We talked last week about firing JB, and somebody said, well, what's the point? It's so late in the season. Well, maybe that will create some buzz for the players. Now, guys, I agree with everything you said, G. I agree with everything Earl said. I agree with everything Mike said. Let's not give the players a pass either.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell got hurt, the team fell apart. Think about it. The Cavs had that stretch and everybody's hanging their hat on when they went 18-2. The rest of the season, they're three games under 500.


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[Assistant] They are not a good basketball team. They, they were a good basketball team for six weeks. The rest of the season they've been garbage. They're a nothing basketball team. Donovan, don't con yourself into thinking Donovan Mitchell's staying. He's not, why would he stay?


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[Assistant] I think G is right on the money, man. There's too many players to play with, not just the Cavs. No fire! There's no fire, like look at the women's champion, I know it's, and we'll see it in the men's game tonight. Like every, I know that's the championship game, it's not a fair comparison really, but


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[Assistant] Regular season, the NBA just sucks. I find it completely unwatchable. Guys play with no fight, no toughness, no heart. This team stinks. I'm with you Earl, and you're a much bigger fan than I am, but like,


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[Assistant] I'm not excited about that. At least last year, I was excited about the playoffs. Ultimately, they fell on their face.


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[Assistant] In the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s, guys played hard every game. Regular season matchups were must watch.


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[Assistant] When Bird and the Celtics play Magic and the Lakers in the regular season, it was must watch. When Jordan played against Isaiah Thomas, when Jordan played against Bird, when Jordan played against Magic,


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[Assistant] These were must watch regular season games. I remember like NBC basketball on the weekends, remember that? You got the game of the week and we'd all be watching that. Because those guys wanted to beat the other stars. Now it's all nonsense.


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[Assistant] In Europe, I was hearing, I don't know, it was Popovich or somebody saying like, they practice three, four times a week and then they play one or two games. That's it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is where analytics is a bad thing. A negative. It's all these nerds and I'm a pro-nerd guy.


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[Assistant] I think the Prog's the worst it's ever been. I'm probably the minority there, but I don't like it and I loved the NBA when I was a kid, but not anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we were taught, you know, like, obviously Bauer's name comes up, but the Guardians are not going down that road. I brought up the Zach Meisel guys like Zach Renke and Johnny Quedo. I don't know if those guys can help anymore. If you look at their pitching prospects,


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[Assistant] There are only two pitching prospects above A-Ball, really, are Espino, who's hurt for the year, and Joey Cantillo, who's out for two months. The rest of their good pitching prospects are, you know, they're pitching an A-Ball. They're not ready to contribute, so there's no obvious answer. But Jay, even despite that, and as devastating as the Bieber injury is,


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[Assistant] So we'll see if it holds. When was the last time you could remember opening day 70 degrees? Crazy. Yep.


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[Assistant] And he opening up in the right field, which I love. I love it. I love the way the place looks. I can't wait to go to my first game. Think I'm going to try to go next weekend. Jay, great stuff, man. We'll see you later in the week.


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[Assistant] It does look good. I like, I like the open airness. The worst thing about progressive field to me was those, those big green shipping containers and they hadn't been there that long, but that was an awful decision. I'm glad they got rid of it.


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[Assistant] Been frustrated by Kevin Stefanski or maybe frustrated with the situation, whether it was Joe Flacco or him having to play more on their center and maybe, maybe he had something to do with Kevin Stefanski potentially losing his play calling.


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[Assistant] It was, you know, I didn't know that, I'm not saying I knew that to be the case. It was just a feeling I kinda had about the situation.


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[Assistant] And to hear him talk about Kevin Stefanski, now, it's easy to say, well, oh, he's being a phony, he doesn't really believe that. But what I would say is,


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[Assistant] If he didn't really believe in Kevin Stefanski, he would have still said something nice for him coming on his podcast, but I don't think he would have gone to that level. The way he talked, Sean Watson's not an actor, he's not a professional actor, he's a football player.


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[Assistant] He couldn't have gone, like the way he talked about it, that's real.


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[Assistant] And that's what you want. And that's what we've never had here in Cleveland, or at least never had in modern times. And, and so that was good. I, I, uh, listen, I'm not, it's pretty obvious. I've been down on Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Uh, for a couple of months now after being insanely excited when they traded for him and insanely excited in the first season and insanely excited going into the second season. I'm a little down on him right now. I don't feel as confident that he's going to turn it around. And it's just words. It doesn't really mean anything in the grand scheme of things. But for the first time for me in a while, I felt a little, I felt a little better about Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that was really a positive thing for both coach and player.


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[Assistant] Because I have people that get angry at me all the time. And I've met fans for...


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[Assistant] Uh, what, 13 years now in Cleveland, I've only had one bad interaction in 13 years. I've had hundreds, maybe a thousand, I don't know, good interactions with fans. Even though, you know, sometimes you think your social media, 20% of people hate you. That's not really it.


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[Assistant] Well, it's good that you, it's really good that you guys went. I know it was a great experience for you guys and it seemed like it was a great thing, like all around. Looks like an awesome place. And, uh, that's great. It's really cool that they watched the show and they know that, I think,


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[Assistant] For the most part, when there's been criticism, and there's been plenty of criticism in the last six months, that it's not


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[Assistant] Yes. I didn't see him coming. I didn't see him. Whereas Wyatt Teller was engaged. He was like. That was like the blind side. Can you imagine Wyatt Teller running and she's like, oh shit.


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[Assistant] The energy in the queue. I wasn't there, but it just felt like it on TV. Mike, you were there. Were you there, Earl?


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[Assistant] You know, uhm, the one negative on what was an amazing weekend, and we do this too often in sports, but for some reason this really bothered me. It was like,


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[Assistant] People were tearing down Caitlin Clark after the championship game.


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[Assistant] And like, you don't have to tear her down to build up, to build up South Carolina.


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[Assistant] Clearly South Carolina was a way better team.


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[Assistant] I didn't watch Cheryl Miller play. None of us watched Cheryl Miller play. She played too many years ago. Do I know that Cheryl Miller is better than Caitlin Clark? Maybe she is, maybe she isn't. I have no idea. I'm not qualified to answer that question.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's disrespectful. If you're a knowledgeable women's basketball


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's fine. I don't think it's disrespectful. I think, and if you're gonna say it's disrespectful, I think it's disrespectful to people saying, well, she can't be the greatest because she didn't win a championship. Well, that, you know, I mean, that to me is stupid. There's only a couple of years to win a championship.


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[Assistant] She's probably their second best player. That other girl is a good player.


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[Assistant] Welcome everybody to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. I think this is the, uh, first time in as long as I can remember that every host on the show, and today it's three of us, me, Tyves, and G, we're all here


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[Assistant] At least 30 minutes before the show. Crazy. When's the last time that happened?


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[Assistant] No, it was me, McNuggets, and Jason. We did that. But that's rare too, cause Jason usually comes late, G usually comes late, and J usually comes late. You get here early, Tyvis, cause he's got a, Tyvis travels five hours to get here every day.


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[Assistant] We got some Cavs, the Cavs are, the Cavs are, let's face it, they're in big trouble here with this Donovan Mitchell situation. We'll get to that later. We're gonna get to the, the Browns signing 82 quarterbacks later.


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[Assistant] Mike is losing his mind on the other side of the glass. So before we talk about all these quarterbacks that we're gonna get to, let's see what Mike has to say. What do you got Mike?


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[Assistant] You know, they had PJ Walker eventually as the, well really he was the third quarterback. Last year you had Kellen Mond in camp as the fourth quarterback. He knew he wasn't going to make the team.


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[Assistant] This is a little different to me because Tyler Huntley's been a legitimate backup quarterback in the league. So you now have four quarterbacks on this team that have legitimately been on rosters for at least the last year. Obviously DTR was a rookie last year.


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[Assistant] Is there any part, is there any part of either of you guys that when you heard about this, cause this happened to me for a second and then I thought about it longer and I said that doesn't make any sense. But for a second I thought, are they worried that Shawn Watson is not going to be ready to start?


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[Assistant] Didn't, uh, somebody on Minnesota got hurt.


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[Assistant] Alright, while you do the open poll, I gotta say, I'm kind of, in the end, like, I went through, when I heard this news, I was actually having lunch with Jonathan Peterlin. Mm. Shout out to JP. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Okay. And a mutual friend now named Matt who's, we've added to my fantasy football league. Shout out to Matt who's a big fan of the show.


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[Assistant] There was wives around, there was little kids, Aaron was doing his own thing, but, but, uhm, anyway, uh, so I see the news, get the alert on my phone, and so I'm like, wow, my first thought was,


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[Assistant] Okay, something's up here, because you have four guys who have at least been a backup quarterback in the league, including DTR. All of them can play a little bit. All of them can play, like none of them are 100% guesses. Yeaah. None of, I, I, I was like, there's no Kellen Mons in this group.


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[Assistant] And then I was, so I went through a series of things. I was like, is there a chance they're going to move on from DTR? And then like Tyvis, I was like, no, they're not going to do that. I can't see that. They can't, I don't even think they can put them on the practice squad because I think some, some crappy team would pick them up. A hundred percent.


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[Assistant] Right? And then, and then I thought, well, does this mean they're a little concerned that Watson's not going to be ready for the season? And then I said, no, he's going to be throwing soon, you know.


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[Assistant] He can't be ready in five and a half months? That doesn't make any sense. But then I was like, well, maybe he's not going to be ready for a lot of the off-season program. And then I saw that Huntley signed for the league minimum, and I thought to myself, what you said now.


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[Assistant] Does anybody question his workout? I don't think so. But let me ask you this, is anybody, it's weird, we talked about this before the show, that the Browns have not announced a Jameis contract.


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[Assistant] And it's been a number of days. Is there a chance that something's happened there and they're not going to sign him? He go back out?


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[Assistant] Davis is very different than the other three quarterbacks. Yes, he is.


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[Assistant] Like, why wouldn't the Chiefs have signed Tyler Huntley? I don't, I don't understand. Nobody was interested in Tyler Huntley as a backup. That's weird to me.


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[Assistant] Better quarterback Tyler Huntley or Josh Dobbs? Huntley! Me too, I'd say Huntley also.


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[Assistant] By the way, I'm thinking about our display on the table here. If you could show that, Steve. Like.


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[Assistant] Can we get LeBron? Can we get Kyrie? Can we get Donovan or Darius or even Jared Allen? I mean, we got Channing Fry and Ricky Rubio!


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[Assistant] My first reaction, guys, is the same reaction I've had


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[Assistant] To everything the Browns have done in the coaching realm this offseason.


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[Assistant] It's, and it's a two-part thing. One, why have they not extended Kevin Stefanski? That's everything, that's what I keep thinking.


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[Assistant] Did Kevin Stefanski want him hired? Or is this Jimmy Haslam forcing it on her? Now I don't know the answer to either of those questions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. But, uh, listen, Mike Rabel obviously can be a valuable guy to have in the organization.


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[Assistant] I'm just a little concerned that these moves are being forced on Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] And in the end, if that's the case, I don't like it. Obviously, I don't know, I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I have this feeling in my gut that that's happening, and if that's the case, I don't like it. If this was a Stefanski decision, then I love it, because he's a smart football man, and how can it hurt?


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[Assistant] No concern that this was forced or you don't care either way.


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[Assistant] But, if you care about something like that, if Kevin Stefanski has an extension, then the amount of fans calling for that, if you care about it, will be a lot lower, because you have an extension.


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[Assistant] He's a Browns fan. That's even worse. Let me ask you this. You're a player on the Browns. Yup. Okay? You were on the Browns last year.


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[Assistant] And somebody said to you, one of your buddies came up to you and said, Why didn't Kevin Stefanski get an extension? Like, would you be thinking like,


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[Assistant] As a player, are you thinking that's weird or players, you know, like if somebody brought it to your- You ask it, you ask it.


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[Assistant] You don't think that's weird. And then they signed Mike Rip. Now, if they give Stefanski an extension, then I think all this hubbub about Rable goes away. We don't worry about it anymore. But until Stefanski gets an extension.


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[Assistant] If we're four games into the season, as G said, or Mike said, and the team gets off to a bad start, you don't think people are thinking about that?


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[Assistant] I'm not saying that they brought in Vrabel to replace him, but when you bring in guys who have been head coaches, it makes you think about the fact that he has him in Simon. Well, there's another person here who could legitimately be the coach if things change and they wanted to find


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[Assistant] G and I are not saying really either of those things.


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[Assistant] To me, the only way it can become a distraction is if they, if they start the season, Stefanski does not have an extension and they get off to a bad start.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure he thinks that. How many teams do you think in the AFC?


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[Assistant] Can have a reasonable shot if things go their way, right? To make the Super Bowl. I'll give ya.


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[Assistant] I think there's six teams that are definitely have a shot. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Browns, Ravens, Bengals, Bills, Chiefs, Texans.


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[Assistant] That's my top six. Ravens. Anybody arguing with any of those six? Anybody? Say it again.


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[Assistant] Bills, Chiefs, Texans, Bengals, Browns, Ravens. Those six have a legitimate sh- a legit- Now there's others that you can make a case for, but I'm saying the- I don't think any of those six are debatable. In my opinion. Anybody wanna debate?


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[Assistant] Right, I get that. You agree, Tyvis? I agree with you. Okay. Let's talk about some other teams. Do we think they had a legitimate chance if things go their way, they stay healthy, things go their way? Do the Steelers have a chance? Yes.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's seven teams in the AFC. Jacksonville. No. No.


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[Assistant] Well, but then why'd you say yes to the Steelers when they're not likely to win their division?


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[Assistant] I'm going to say no on Jacksonville. You're going to say no on Jacksonville. Alright. They're fringe. I'm going to say yes. I think there is a scenario Jacksonville can win a Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Anybody else with me on a possible yes? I'm not saying it's likely, I'm just saying it's not a million in one shot, I don't think. Anybody else or am I alone on Jacksonville?


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[Assistant] They give, they give Mike Williams, yeaah. We give the Jets a shot. We're putting the Jets on. Yeaah. I am not putting the Jets on. You guys all are. So I got Jacksonville, you guys got the Jets. So that's eight teams, we all think. What's they all think? Miami! What about Miami?


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[Assistant] What I'm sayin'? You sayin' somethin', Blais? I think the Browns could be...


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[Assistant] Could have a home-teat game in the first round and they could not make the playoffs. Both of those things are possible. And I'm not saying not make the playoffs because they're 6 and 11. I'm saying it's possible they could finish 9 and 8 and not make the playoffs.


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[Assistant] All four North teams, in my opinion.


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[Assistant] Could, I like some more than others, but all four of the teams I believe in the north could finish in any spot in the division. I do, I believe so too. I mean you could pick them in any order and you're not crazy in my opinion.


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[Assistant] So, you know, especially if there's some luck there, right? Some team gets lucky, you face teams at the right time, you have better injury luck, who knows?


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[Assistant] Look, okay, I was gonna go 25.


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[Assistant] If he can turn again this year, then he goes into that category. No, I think he's already in that category. He's missed every precinct.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, listen, I don't know about, but the, the, the Watson injury is more unique than the Joe Burrows. That's the, yeah, I mean, if you want to argue that Joe Burrows injury prone, to me, if he gets injured again this year, I'd put him into that category. I'm not there yet, but it's not unfair to call him injury prone. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, Lamar has been a little inconsistent in his career. He's had the two seasons where his MVP was fantastic and then the two years in between he was just okay. I just got hurt. If Joe Bro comes back. Even before he got hurt in those years, he wasn't playing the same level as he's played the last year. He also didn't have anybody to throw to.


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[Assistant] The bottom line is, if you're starting a team right now, and your choice is Deshaun Watson or Lamar Jackson, you're taking Lamar Jackson. Lamar, you probably are.


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[Assistant] But right now, you'd be crazy to take Watson over either of those guys. That doesn't mean it can't happen, right? I mean, I thought Jared Goff's career was done and now he's become a decent NFL quarterback, right? But he's a decent, solid quarterback.


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[Assistant] Okay, so. Alright, let's, let's rank. I know we weren't going to go down this road, but we want to go down this road. I'm fine with that. Alright, so running back, let's look at the four teams in the division. Who's number one?


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb, a healthy Nick Chubb. Yeah, but Nick Chubb's not he- we don't know where he is right now. True.


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[Assistant] But they're two good backs, and they're younger and healthier.


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[Assistant] I'm going to go to Browns 1, Steelers 2, Ravens 3, Bengals 4.


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[Assistant] I mean if, obviously if they end up trading Higgins, it changes, but. Tight in, uuuh. Well hold on, we gotta do the rest of the order in the wide receiver. So, Bengals one, who's two? Where else? Are you sure about that?


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[Assistant] I might actually take the Browns one, that's crazy. You taking Pickens or Cooper? Cooper.


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[Assistant] I would say. You think Cooper's still going to be better than Pickens this year? Yep.


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[Assistant] The biggest question mark is him. That's why I think, that's why he said yeaah. He knows it's on him. If he plays, forget about playing better than Lamar Jackson, if he plays anywhere in the ballpark of them, the Broncs could definitely win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] That's, and that's the thing. Even if he's the third best, but it's close. If he's the fifth best. It don't matter. You know what I'm saying, third best in the division. Okay, but if he's close, then yeaah, that's good enough. If he's the top ten quarterback.


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[Assistant] The Browns have as good a shot as any. Yes. I think the Browns, if we just judged every team in the NFL, not including their quarterback, rest of the roster, Browns are top five in the league. Just roster? Just roster, not including quarterback. Yes.


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[Assistant] Is that a thing that you think quarterbacks can get better at? Or is that just a natural thing that you don't?


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[Assistant] I thought, I gotta say, I tweeted yesterday about, you know, the Steelers quarterback room and that's, I mean, so much better than it was this year.


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[Assistant] I mean, Justin Fields is gonna be their backup and he's a good deal better than any of the three guys they had in my opinion. I agree.


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[Assistant] And I was really surprised that there were a lot of Browns fans kind of embarrassing themselves on Twitter. They were like, well the Broncos gave away Russell Wilson and Justin Fields and they could only get a 6 round pick. The Steelers aren't really that much better.


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[Assistant] Still has a chance, you could debate what percentage, I would say a small percentage, but I think there's at least a chance that he could still be a very good NFL quarterback. I like it. And that he's just been with the wrong team and the wrong coaches, and that if he had the right coach, now, we know Mike Tomlin's a great coach, but Mike Tomlin's not an offensive guy.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, they added. They did. Right. Plus they added Queen. They traded. They got a, no, Stone went to the bank. Okay. And they went and they added a quarter in the trade. Dante Jackson. Right. He was a good player.


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[Assistant] But it was a little better last year.


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[Assistant] Nobody. Nobody. Yea, but that doesn't matter. The backup is...


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[Assistant] James is really like Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yes, I like them type dudes. For a couple of game stretch, he's fine. He can light you up. I don't want him playing the whole year.


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[Assistant] Jay is gonna like, Jay will lose his mind. He will lose his mind. Jason or Jay? Jay, well both, but specifically Jay.


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[Assistant] You know how embarrassing it is that you thought that they, uh, didn't play because it's the Rockets? Think about this for a minute. You know the last time the Cavs won a playoff series without LeBron?


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[Assistant] They beat the Nets in the first round. Trotson Petrovich was in that first round. Shout out to them. Since winning that series, alright, the Cavs beat the Nets in the spring of 1993.


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[Assistant] Three games to two. Since winning that series 31 years ago, how many playoff games have the Cavs won without LeBron? Playoff games, not series, but zero.


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[Assistant] Mike, how many playoff games have the Cavs won without LeBron since they won that first round series against the Nets in 93.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and according to your network, Fox Sports, the ratings.


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[Assistant] It's been better for women's overall, or there's been more viewers on average for women's games than men's, which is, we've never, I don't think we've ever seen that before.


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[Assistant] I mean, I wanna move to the men's tournament, but real quick, that weekend in Cleveland, the women's final four,


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[Assistant] Now, we talked about all the upsets, John, but I gotta say, maybe it's prisoner of the moment because of what they did to my Johnnys in the semi-finals, but man, UConn is just like a machine. Watch it. They all, every player that plays for that team is so good. Do you think anybody can stop them? Who has the best chance of beating them?


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[Assistant] Right, John, last thing real quick, we got 30 seconds because we gotta go in a little bit. I know you were, I could, I, I saw you on Twitter today, you're pissed off that the, uh, transfer window's opening now. It doesn't make sense. I don't know why they don't wait till the end of the tourney or at least 30 seconds on why you're so pissed about this.


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[Assistant] You're 100% right. Why couldn't they just wait a couple of weeks? What's the big deal?


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[Assistant] At first I was like, okay, I've heard of Marvin Lewis. And the Bengals had been crap. The Bengals had been like what the Browns were. They had been awful. And then Marvin Lewis started taking them to the playoffs and I'm like, Marvin Lewis, go Marvin Lewis.


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[Assistant] Because I was a fan of a team that had been so bad for so long, I was more patient, because I'm like, at least he's getting us to the playoffs every year. But then eventually there comes a point where you're like, alright, we gotta get further than this. We are not at that point, it's not even close in my opinion.


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[Assistant] Uh, shout out to the Vio, but yeaah, Justin is a demon on the, he been all pro for special teams. Gunner, obviously this is one of those, uh, bubble ventrone moves you needed to replace.


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[Assistant] He, he, he lost his mother tragically and he said from that moment on he's made everything about his mother. He plays hard for his mother. He wears the chain with the picture of her on it and you gonna get the best out of him. Everything he's got and he's in Cleveland and he's from Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Another great guy, probably the best guy I've ever met in my NFL career. He was like a real stand up guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know what, when we played the Jets on that Thursday night game as I was coming in the stadium, he was getting off the bus and we stood there and talked for a while and after Joe Flacco won the game, his words to Joe was, hey, bring my city a championship, so it's important to him.


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[Assistant] You want to make a splash? You want to make a splash on special teams?


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[Assistant] That right there is a guy who's going to be passionate about it. Uhm, he's probably, Bubba Ventrone probably can see himself in him because he's made his niche in the NFL off a special team. So he takes it very seriously, brings leadership, bring attitude, bring that dog. And like I said, he's from Cleveland, so you're going to get everything he's got.


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[Assistant] But you gotta find a way to get an edge, you know? Like, defense has come along, offense is gonna be a challenge this year because it's new.


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[Assistant] So what is something else that people don't really pay a lot of energy and time and focus to? You know, some, some organizations say, hey, go do special teams for 10, 15 minutes. You know, it is what it is. Some people are locked in, like we need to lock in to what we're doing.


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[Assistant] Very special. Matthew Slater, Nate Ebner, go Bucks. Uhm, guys like that, you know. But there's not, I mean, there's not many, it's not many.


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[Assistant] Tasker. Tasker, right. It's a dude that I played with in the senior ball. He plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Miles Killibrew. He's like that dude now. Really good on special teams.


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[Assistant] Hey, you never know. I mean, listen, he's up there at age, so maybe it ain't the same, but, you know, he got taught in New Orleans how to play corner. He made a couple of plays. That was preseason. He made a couple of plays in the preseason. Like, he's a work in progress when it comes to DB because he's been the receiver his entire life, so.


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[Assistant] I think if, if guys start to get hurt and you're down to your fifth, sixth guy, like, he can get you through a game.


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[Assistant] I got a question about this. When you say, you know, you want to see, it's going to take some time for Kevin.


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[Assistant] If he gives a play caller, does that affect your ability of him as a head coach?


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[Assistant] Because all the rest, the top of the names on that all called place. Let me see that list again. Andy Stein. Kyle.


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[Assistant] No. I didn't say Tomlin. I said Andy, Sean, Kyle, Matt LaFleur, and Mike McDaniels. Five of the ten. Oh, and Sean Payton. Six. Is Jim gonna call plays? Do we know? No.


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[Assistant] I agree with that. I was just curious because the one thing about him has been like, he's a man. What I like about Kevin Stefanski and why I consider him to be maybe a top 10 coach is because


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[Assistant] He is the best when it comes to managing crisis. Yes. If that makes sense. Like injuries happen or off the field incidents happen or something like that or locker room stuff happens. You'd be like, Oh, they're done. Their minds won't be into the game. And for some reason they come out there on Sunday, they look lights out and they win these games.


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[Assistant] And I don't think a lot of coaches can have that effect on their players like he can. So I think that that's why I say he's a top 10 coach to me personally, because he has that ability to get everybody to lock in, block out the outside noise, block out the stuff that's going on, focus on the tasks that can.


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[Assistant] Now as far as the play calling goes, to me that's just been a, it's been a rollercoaster. There's been times where...


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[Assistant] Some seasons he's been good, some seasons he's been bad. And it's just a lot of variables that goes into it. But I think this season was the one that showed me like this dude can be really good at calling plays. And another thing that I really respect him for, it don't matter who's under center for him, he makes it work for some odd reason. And that's something that's special as well.


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[Assistant] So, so to me, to you, if he gets Deshaun to play well, not even, what does Deshaun need to be for you to be like, Kevin Stefanski is like a top five?


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[Assistant] Being, having a full off season, knowing to come in and be the starter. And I give you that. But it started off slow, and it was progressing. And that's the thing for me, like, it started to progress. And then, as soon as we start that, okay, maybe it's starting to look good. He got hurt with the shoulder.


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[Assistant] So it's like to me, it's still there. It's there. I just, he just got to do it for 17 years. And I'm not saying he going to come out in the first five games and just look top five. I don't think that's going to be the case. I think it's going to take him a while, but I think by the end of this upcoming season, he will be playing like a top 10 quarterback. I never said that.


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[Assistant] If he plays 17 games, I won't say anything. Well, if he plays a full season and he still looks...


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[Assistant] I think that they're doing that because of the changes that they made offensively on the staff.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't either. So would you, let me say this. Yeaah. Say Deshaun doesn't play to the ability. Yeaah. And Kevin benches him.


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[Assistant] Would you put that as a, would you say that that's more of a top 10 coach move?


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[Assistant] Or would you be like, he's gotta ride it out with Deshaun and make it work.


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[Assistant] So eh, the move, the move is, if you make the move, ain't nobody gonna really be mad at you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's gotta be like, no touchdowns, 10 picks, like that type of thing. Really awful, yeah.


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[Assistant] If you poll this, I think, and they buildin' a dome, I think everybody's gonna say, yeah, we'll choose the dome. So, I don't, at the end of the day, it's not like the Cleveland Browns are gonna be called the Brooke Park Browns. That's not the case. They're gonna still be the Cleveland Browns. Everybody's still gonna look at them the same.


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[Assistant] I think it depends. What are they going to do with the stadium? Like, that's...


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[Assistant] But who's to say, is it an option that maybe, not saying that a lot of fans would do this, Browns go win a big game. Hey, let's go celebrate downtown. Isn't that like a lot of people do that?


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[Assistant] What is the, what, do anybody know what happens with the one billion dollar renovations? Like what, what are they renovating? Do anybody know?


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[Assistant] You gon' make that right back. If you build up the area like you say, like, like, I'm sure, uh, my, what's my dude in Dallas, uh, Jerry Jones. I'm sure Jerry made his money back ten times from Jerry's World. Like, it's ridiculous. He got a whole city.


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[Assistant] Everybody knows I love Tristan McKenzie. The reason that I was okay with them moving off Shane Bieber is because of him. I was like, you know, is he quite the ace? No, but he can work his way into it. He's given me moments where I was like, that dude can develop to be a great ace for us.


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[Assistant] What I, that, that right there, what he did yesterday, I'm concerned, we might need to, we need to extend Shane Bieber if, if McKenzie go play like this. Well that didn't happen. I know, but listen, if we want to have a run at this thing, or a shot at this thing,


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[Assistant] The pitching gotta get much better. I mean, Bybee, Allen, Cookie, oh my god. I actually thought it's...


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[Assistant] I gotta, you know what, I gotta see who, who is he, uh, slotted the pitch against next? Is it the twins?


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[Assistant] I gotta see, I gotta see, give me like three or four more stars.


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[Assistant] Are they? There's no way they believe that. Are they guaranteed to lose 100 or more games?


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[Assistant] Anybody else? Or is it just those three themes? Hey, Jason look like a dang wizard right now.


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[Assistant] Two things. One, I was, did Stephen Kwan hit a home run? He did. That's what I thought. Okay, so that's, that's very impressive because he's great at contact, but home run hitter he was not. But we did say at the beginning of this year that he was probably going to take more chances. So it's nice to see that that's paying off. And the second thing,


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[Assistant] I was watching the game, uh, maybe a couple of days ago. Jose batting in the two spot?


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[Assistant] I struggled with left hand pitchers. You hit lefty? I could not. No, I heck no. I wasn't no switch hitter. I just couldn't hit.


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[Assistant] Why would you not know that? Why would I know that? You watch me, you watch my tape.


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[Assistant] When I played for some odd reason, it was something about a left hand pitcher that just, and it's not like, it's not like his stuff was good. It was like a mental thing, but, but I, for the, we was, to get to the championship, it was me versus him, two outs.


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[Assistant] Got a guy on third. I had to hit him in. If I struck out, we lost.


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[Assistant] The championship in Little League. So, there you go. That's the story. Haha! The Cucumbus. His name was Silk. That was the pitcher's name. Silk. Silk? He did this high kick before he picked me. The Valenzuela kick. Threw me off every time. I was like, man.


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[Assistant] Tomatoes. I thought that was an ass shit. I dunno.


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[Assistant] I got a question for you. Did you ever think to do the nuggets challenge when we played the nuggets?


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[Assistant] It's over the course of the game though, so it can't be that bad. Well, why didn't you do it then? I was busy.


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[Assistant] I think you, you gonna get an inspired one. I think Darius plays better. Donovan.


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[Assistant] The Donovan thing is interesting because I know he's playing through the knee thing and he's still adjusting with the face mask on, so I'm not expecting him to have a big time game. You know, the 20 plus points, I don't even think he's going to even hit 20. But I think it's, him being out on the court


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[Assistant] It just does something to the rest of the team, and that influence needs to take over. Like, I don't know what Darius was been doing for the past couple of games, but he, that man is trippin'. Everybody else is like, yeah, he, I, dude, he's like, am I five points in the course of a game? Like, is he hurt or something?


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[Assistant] Who did they play? No! It was a good team, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] What's the, what's our record? How far away from 50 are we?


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[Assistant] Unlike. They're not gonna drop. The Cavs are gonna. I don't, do you trust the Cavs to win any games right now? Tonight?


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[Assistant] I really enjoyed the game last night. I'm not going to lie to you, when I watched the game, to me personally, Iowa wanted it more. It meant more to Iowa. LSU, it looked like to me, we've been there, we've done it already. You know, we've got, we won the national championship, but Iowa's hungry because they didn't get a chance to win it. They got there and they did. They out-hustled them, I thought. Yeah, for sure they did.


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[Assistant] I wanted, as great as that game was, I was, I watched a lot of the next game, uh, UConn versus USC because I'm a huge Juju fan and I wanted to see Juju versus Kaitlyn Clark because Juju shattered.


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[Assistant] All the freshman records, but Paige Buckets, man, like she, she had a game last night where she just completely took over. I mean, she was hitting trade, she was getting to the cup, hitting fast break layups and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Juju just kept going to the cup trying to get foul calls and they weren't calling them for it. So they should have adjusted that. But I think it's a overall, it's a great matchup to see UConn versus Iowa. I do think that UConn is a better team.


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[Assistant] Then USC would have been. You know, we would have been, obviously everybody would have loved to see Juju versus Kaitlin, but I think team wise, UConn is a better team.


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[Assistant] That's suited to go up against Iowa. Uh, South Carolina versus NC State. You know, that's a, that's a good matchup. South Carolina, as dominant as they've been, they play some close games as well. So NC State could potentially do something there and it's also nice. I need to point out that you kind of NC State.


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[Assistant] Both have men and women's teams in the final four, which I think is the first time that's ever happened.


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[Assistant] So we, the first thing we did was, uh, was a stance. I want Albert Bell's stance because I want, not just the fact that it's his stance, but I went with him because I want that intimidation.


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[Assistant] When Fran Mill, when he hit the ball, cause it's not about, you know, hit. We expected everything to hit. We talking about the power of the hit. When Fran Mill hit that ball, it was out of there. It was gone. He got some- When Mill Reyes- He got some-


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[Assistant] I like, I like him. He's a, he's a very good player to me. When you think about plate discipline, I thought he batted well. I thought, you know, when you get there, you need to have the good eyes and all of those things. So I went with old Marvis Gill. What's wrong with this?


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[Assistant] I'm disappointed in y'all too. Cause y'all, y'all picked the, the people that you supposed to pick. Y'all, y'all. That's right! You telling me when he hit it, it wasn't gold?


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[Assistant] What about Frankie? But I wanna go with Jose. Y'all wanted to go with the obvious choice.


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[Assistant] First of all, my swing, my swing actually was critiqued, actually it was evaluated by


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[Assistant] He looked at it and said it was, he said your swing is actually really good. See that? So y'all better, y'all better pay homage. Hey listen, wait a minute, Anthony. Game on the line. The championship on the line. It's a runner on third. I'm going up against a lefty named Silk. He do this funky kick thing.


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[Assistant] Knocked him. Boom! Brought him in, won the game, went on to win the championship. You better pay homage, bro. By the way, if he was lefty, he would have gone up with this leg. Whatever. Go ahead, Mike. Kick.


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[Assistant] See that? That's that. That right there? That man knows something. Just imagine Yannis in a, in a wine.


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[Assistant] Mike, you know, you was just talking about the pitching, and obviously, you know, Shane Bieber, this, everybody, there's a lot of talks about him being traded, either at the deadline or after the season.


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[Assistant] But obviously his first start, he was lights out. If he continues to play like that and the pitching and the rotation isn't up to standard or where we're used to it being, do you think that they maybe potentially could extend him even though that's something that they have never done?


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[Assistant] What this basically does, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is ensures that, uhm, the Cleveland Browns, uh, have to go through the legal process of leaving the city of Cleveland. Whether they want to move the team to Timbuktu or whether they want to move them to Brook Park or to Lakewood or to any other state, uhm, they have to, uh, go before, uhm,


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[Assistant] The city, Cleveland City Council asked for permission to leave that team or to move the team or they have to put, give us six months notice and offer to put the team up for sale. We're hoping that the latter does not happen.


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[Assistant] Great question. It's, it's, it's a tremendous question. So, to me, passing P. Maravich, it, it, it, that, that is absolutely noteworthy to begin with, uh, to be the all-time scorer. She, she scores at an incredible rate. Incredible rate. But it's her personality that I think makes her the,


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[Assistant] Uh, the tournament. To me, why did Ohio State hire Jake Dibler? First off, he's cheap. Second off, the players love him. The players love him. I, I will tell you when I thought this was possible. Back in December, I did a feature on Bruce Thornton, uh, and Bryce Sensenbaum. Uh, and I'm, I'm Roddy Gale. You know, I'm doing a feature on Ohio State and


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[Assistant] The days of the old timers, with the exception of like a patino, Adam, those days are over.


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[Assistant] Uh, Donovan Klingon's an elite rim protector or unicorn. Stefan Castle's a one and done freshman who's a stud.


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[Assistant] I don't think it always translates to NCAA tournament success. Because I think it takes a lot out of you.


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[Assistant] They say they don't, but I, I, I'm sorry. There's too many coincidences within this.


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[Assistant] With the left guard thing? Just stay in your lane. Don't try to impact basketball.


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[Assistant] That was not what I was expecting when you said you wanted to tell us about your speaking engagement yesterday, but I'm glad it went well, Bull.


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[Assistant] That's a good start. Happy opening day to you guys by the way. We're going to spend a ton of time on the guardians today. We're also going to get into the Cavs.