00:00Who will win the starting quarterback job between Deshaun Watson and Shador Sanders?
00:07The new head football coach, Todd Munkin, has to determine between who the best stiff is
00:13as his starting quarterback as they go into the 2026 offseason.
00:18Think about the deal that they ended up cutting for Deshaun Watson, Mr. Character here.
00:23This guy got a $230 million fully guaranteed contract to come from Houston and basically
00:32was bribed to have to go and play in Cleveland.
00:36How has that turned out?
00:37If this thing doesn't turn out where this guy ever becomes what they thought he was, and
00:42by the way, for the record, I thought he was sensational with the Texans.
00:46And I get what everybody was looking at when he was there in Houston.
00:49But if this guy bombs, this will go down as the biggest failure in the history of contract
00:57negotiations.
00:58And it will set back the NFL Players Association for ever thinking that you could get guaranteed
01:03contracts for players, let alone quarterbacks.
01:06$230 million, and that guy's been a bum in Cleveland.
01:10And then you have the media darling, Shador Sanders, who everybody, for whatever reason,
01:16thinks that this guy had some sort of great season last year.
01:19He's not the answer in Cleveland.
01:23People are actually talking about him being the answer in Cleveland.
01:27Now, I will say this.
01:29If he were to come out in the NFL draft here in a couple months in April, would he be
01:34a
01:34first-round pick?
01:35Probably.
01:36But that doesn't necessarily mean he's a first-round talent.
01:4032 players get drafted each and every single year when it comes to the NFL draft.
01:45Do you know how many legitimate first-round picks there are every year?
01:49There's between 12 and 15 legitimate first-rounders.
01:53The rest of them are second and third and potentially fourth-round guys.
01:59You've got to fill out the ledger because, again, there's 32 teams.
02:04There's not 32 first-round talents.
02:07Sanders would have been a first-rounder.
02:09But it just shows you how desperate many of these NFL teams are to try to find a signal
02:14caller.
02:15Look at what they've done.
02:16And look at organizations on how they've not developed.
02:19We talked about Sam Darnold and Sam Darnold's journey.
02:22Again, the Jets failed.
02:24He goes to Carolina.
02:25Fails there.
02:26He has a cup of coffee in San Francisco.
02:28Then he goes to Minnesota.
02:30He gets around great coaching.
02:32And then, of course, he goes to Seattle.
02:33And he ends up crossing the finish line there.
02:36And we saw him win a Super Bowl in February.
02:38This is more about organizations.
02:41But also, too, you miss on these guys.
02:44The number one position that is missed on at the NFL draft is the quarterback position.
02:51Why?
02:51Because the combines that we just came out of this week, again, today, the offensive line
02:56is the last group to participate in front of the general managers as they get their draft
03:01board all ready for April.
03:02That's the last position group that will be able to go out today and perform.
03:07That being said, the quarterback position is the most difficult position to evaluate.
03:13Why?
03:13Because when you look at the measurables, great arm.
03:16Does Watson have a great arm?
03:18Of course he does.
03:19Does Watson have the physique to be able to play the position?
03:22Of course he does.
03:23But what's the one intangible that you see Tom Brady have, where you see some of these
03:28other quarterbacks like Peyton Manning have?
03:30Guys, those two guys couldn't jump over a stack of quarters, let alone run a 40-yard dash.
03:36You know what it is?
03:37It's processing.
03:38It's developing your intelligence on being able to see and dissect defenses.
03:43We had Jim Kelly on with us earlier.
03:45This guy called plays himself.
03:47They didn't have an offensive coordinator.
03:50The quarterbacks of the past were processing and looking and finding their landmarks and
03:55knew what pre-snap reads were.
03:57Today, these guys are not prepped and ready to play in the National Football League.
04:02I watched Sanders play last year.
04:04I'm sorry.
04:04I don't think he's the answer in Cleveland.
04:07Then again, look at the conveyor belt of quarterbacks and look at the conveyor belt of head coaches
04:12that they've had there.
04:13You really think that Jimmy Haslam is going to figure out what the quarterback is for
04:182026 and who's going to lead his football team?
04:21Name me a quarterback that they have had there outside of Baker Mayfield.
04:25By the way, you think Jimmy Haslam and that organization, Andrew Berry, the general manager,
04:30would not like to have that decision back again?
04:32Who would you rather have right now?
04:34Baker Mayfield, who you had and you drafted number one overall, or would you rather have
04:40Deshaun Watson, who's turned out to be a complete train wreck, and you got a project
04:45in Shador Sanders?
04:47If you had to do that all over again, how do you not look at it and go, we screwed
04:52up
04:53with Baker Mayfield, who right now is in the process of negotiating a contract with the
04:58Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a brand new contract extension with Jason Light and those guys,
05:03and they're talking about an excess of three years at $50 million a year in what he's
05:11done since he's been a Tampa Bay Buccaneer.
05:14And there's Cleveland, once again, the Battle of the Stiffs, man, it'll make for good TV.
05:20I'll tell you that, the Battle of the Stiffs by Lake Erie.
05:26Only Cleveland Brown stuff could it happen.
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