00:00It's becoming clearer and clearer that the planet quarterback might be all of our worst fears combined.
00:09Dude, can we talk for a second?
00:11Because this week, so I'm sick, right?
00:14I'm like, I can't leave my house.
00:16I'm stuck inside.
00:17Which, by the way, that's good for all of us that you were stuck in your house.
00:20Every time I open up the phone, go on the Bird app, I've got Ken Carman in the morning and
00:28Nick Wilson in the afternoon.
00:30They're just fighting like little girls all week long.
00:34And they've got to bring me and you here on the weekends to just mop up whatever that mess was
00:41all week long.
00:43Listen, I don't have to mop up anything.
00:44Where you got Ken telling everybody that this is the plan, and then you've got Nick Wilson telling everybody, well,
00:50the plan's a mess and it can't be Deshaun versus Shador.
00:54You need to add somebody to the mix.
00:56And then you've got Ken saying, well, you're being naive because they're showing you that the plan is Deshaun versus
01:01Shador.
01:02And they're just going at each other all week long, bickering, bickering, bickering.
01:07I'm between Dayquil, Nightquil.
01:09They're just on the timeline at each other's necks.
01:12Guys, I think they're both right.
01:15I think they're both right.
01:16I think Ken is right in the sense that right now it looks like it's going to be Deshaun Watson
01:23versus Shador Sanders because they barely even tried to get any one of Malik Willis or Kyler Murray or even
01:30Marcus Mariota for crying out loud.
01:33And to Nick's point, he said that's an unserious quarterback room.
01:36And I think he's right.
01:38So can't everybody be right and we can just settle this thing?
01:41Like, it looks like right now it's shaping up to be Deshaun versus Shador Sanders.
01:47Those are the only two serious quarterbacks that they have outside of Dylan Gabriel, who I'm not even going to
01:53entertain in this thing.
01:54And they didn't really go after Malik Willis or Kyler Murray.
02:00We spent weeks and really months talking about adding another name into this quarterback competition.
02:05Well, hang on a second.
02:06I don't think it's a matter of them not going after Kyler Murray and Malik Willis.
02:12I think it's the Browns were of no interest in Kyler Murray and Malik Willis.
02:17And they looked at the offensive side of the ball and what they got to play with.
02:22And they're like, yeah, we're just not doing that.
02:25So then you're stuck with what you got.
02:27And maybe there's one wild card in that.
02:30And I think the one wild card in that could be Ty Simpson.
02:33No!
02:34That's the wild card though, right?
02:36Like the fact that they weren't able to seriously even talk to Malik because of the agent.
02:41They're not taking Ty Simpson.
02:43Because if you take Ty Simpson, that takes you out of the 2027 NFL quarterback class.
02:46Kyler was always going to Minnesota.
02:49And the one wild card that could stop it from being Deshaun versus Shador is if they fall in love
02:54with Ty Simpson.
02:55I agree with you.
02:57I think the Browns are much better suited to try to trade back from either 6, 24, or both.
03:03Get an extra chip if you can.
03:05And be in the race for Arch Manning, for Dante Moore, for one of these 2027 quarterbacks.
03:11But dude, as it's shaped right now, I don't know that that's going to happen.
03:16And I think they were trying to get Rasheed Walker because then you could go into the NFL draft.
03:21If you've got Rasheed Walker at left tackle, you could go into the draft.
03:25You could take Carnell Tate there at 6.
03:27And then if Simpson's sitting there at 24, you could sell to yourself and to fans,
03:33hey, well, we rebuilt the offensive line through trades and free agency.
03:37We got a premier number one wide receiver that everybody was tripping over themselves for
03:41throughout the entirety of the college football season because Carnell Tate was that good.
03:46What more do you want us to do?
03:48We built our offense up through trade, through free agency on the line,
03:53through the draft at wide receiver.
03:55If Ty Simpson's sitting there at 24, it depends on his relationship with Munkin,
04:00who scouted him at Georgia.
04:01We've heard all the narratives that go into this.
04:03How much do they really like Ty Simpson?
04:05Something tells me in about a month's time, we're going to find out.
04:09Well, they already had him in for a top 30 visit before free agency.
04:13And I think a lot of that had to do with just doing homework on him to see if,
04:18you know, they should be interested in him.
04:22Listen, Todd Munkin's about to get the full Cleveland Browns experience.
04:26Now, don't get me wrong.
04:28He had it in 2019 as the offensive coordinator,
04:31but now he's the one steering the Titanic here.
04:34So, good luck with your quarterback room being Deshaun Watson and Shadour Sanders
04:41as far as, well, your quarterback competition, I should say.
04:44You're right.
04:47Part of this, I believe, is they're paying Deshaun $46 million one last time.
04:52Might as well see if something, anything is still there, which, by the way,
04:56we know the answer to that's going to be no.
04:59But it's going to look good in practice.
05:01Everybody's going to ooh and ah.
05:02You know what?
05:03The Browns are going to be pumping out them videos on social media.
05:07By the way.
05:08Deshaun's going to be over at some local college after practice doing stuff.
05:13And it's going to look so good on the gram, as the kids like to call it.
05:19By the way, Darryl, you turned your nose up a little bit there about Ty Simpson.
05:23And we're talking about the Nick Wilson versus Ken Carman two-week-long debate about the quarterback room.
05:29I'm very confident they're not taking Ty Simpson.
05:31There's no way the Browns are taking themselves out of the 2027 quarterback class.
05:38There is zero chance.
05:40Because if they take Ty Simpson at 24...
05:43Yeah, there's no way you're taking one in 2027, unless it's a situation where he's so bad.
05:48Unless it's like, it would have to be Arizona Cardinals bad.
05:52Where Josh Rosen was that bad during his rookie year that they had the number one overall pick the following
05:58year.
05:58And that led them to take Kyler Murray.
06:00Like, if you take Ty Simpson, unless that situation plays itself out, you're probably taking yourself out of the 2027
06:07quarterback class.
06:08With that said, though, my current take, my current belief, as we sit March 15th, and you mentioned Deshaun Watson
06:15is going to be posting these Instagram.
06:17And the Browns will probably be posting training camp videos.
06:20Oh, those spirals are going to be so tight at practice.
06:23Darryl, look at me.
06:23Darryl, look at me.
06:24Anybody but Deshaun Watson.
06:26I'd start Ty Simpson over Deshaun Watson.
06:29I'd start Shador Sanders.
06:31I'd start Dylan Gabriel.
06:32I'd start Drew Aller.
06:34Anybody but Deshaun Watson is my quote right now on March 15th at 8 in the morning.
06:41It'll be my quote August 15th as we're getting ready for preseason football.
06:46Anybody but Deshaun Watson.
06:48That's not a serious plan.
06:50I'm not falling in line with it.
06:52Deshaun Watson cannot, I repeat, cannot be the starting quarterback of this thing.
06:58And I will pull for anybody, any other name outside of Deshaun Watson.
07:04So if you want to sell me on Ty Simpson there in the first round and take yourself out of
07:09the 2027 QB race, because I think that's what it is.
07:11I'd find myself pounding the table for Ty Simpson, who I don't even truly believe in.
07:17If it means him playing football games over Deshaun Watson, I can't do it.
07:21I can't do it another year.
07:23I can't even do it another week.
07:24No.
07:25You can say no to Deshaun Watson.
07:29I'm with you.
07:29I hope they do.
07:30But these are the Browns, and they don't often do the smart thing.
07:36And I think that there's a very good possibility he's going to be your week one starter.
07:41They are laying the groundwork.
07:43The moment I heard Adam Schefter on the Pat McAfee show.
07:49And now, introducing the starting offense for your Cleveland Browns at Huntington Bankfield.
07:55There will be no fans.
07:56It'll be empty.
07:57It'll be like a pandemic game.
07:59Well, I don't know.
08:00It'll be that bad.
08:01At quarterback number four, Deshaun Watson.
08:04And it's like, wait, this is a home game.
08:06There's nobody here.
08:08Well, I think we all remember the last time Deshaun Watson was on a field as a member of the
08:15Cleveland Browns.
08:16It was not a pretty sight in more ways than one, both on the field as well as in the
08:22stands.
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