00:00Mary Kay Cabot on with the Midday Boys had interesting expectations for a quarterback
00:08battle between Shador and Deshaun Watson this summer. I think it will be wildly entertaining
00:13and very heated and very animated and I think it will bring out the best in both of them. I
00:18think
00:19the fact that they both have to learn a brand new offense levels the playing field a little bit.
00:24You know the fact that Shador started the final seven games that gives him a little bit of a boost
00:29and then Deshaun having three Pro Bowls on his resume you know that gives him a little bit of
00:35an edge so I think they both bring some really fascinating things to the table and in the final
00:41analysis it's just going to be a matter of it will come down to what Todd Munkin thinks when it
00:45comes
00:46to choosing the starting quarterback and who he thinks will give his team the best chance to win.
00:50I really enjoy Mary Kay. She is truly the gold standard of Browns beat reporters so I want
00:57I'm disagreeing with opinion even though I respect Mary Kay's opinion a lot which means you know
01:02I'm going to vehemently disagree. When she said wildly entertaining very heated and very animated that's
01:10exactly what I became in my car listening to it on the radio because I don't like I think it's
01:18going
01:18to be entertaining. I don't know entertaining is it I don't know good entertaining. It's the relevance
01:24thing. There's like a fun bad type of thing too you know there I think about this with baseball when
01:28a
01:29team hits a spot where they're not competitive they're not really winning many games but they're
01:32just a fun team to watch. It might be that level maybe where it just gets to be what I
01:36call fun bad.
01:38So here's what all I really want from a quarterback battle is maybe a guy that I prefer but in
01:44the end
01:45I'm just excited to see two guys go out there and compete. I've only got one of them in Shador.
01:50Yeah no so I believe that but I think the day in day out people trying to prop up Deshaun
01:56and all
01:57this after so many years of watching it now work I do think it's going to be entertaining. I think
02:01I
02:01I'm very invested in it if that's what it ends up being if that's what it comes down to
02:06how do you not get entertained by that? Because one quarterback's the biggest disgrace sorry the
02:13trade for him is the biggest disgrace in Brown's history which is saying something. But people are
02:18going to turn around and they're going to call the station and they're going to try to make a claim
02:21for that guy you just described. That in and of itself I'm just trying to see how people do it.
02:25I want to be mesmerized by the people that go ahead and try to try to make the case for
02:30Deshaun
02:30over Shador in any sort of way. Now maybe also I'm like the Joker and I'm laughing at this whole
02:35entire thing because I think if it's Deshaun versus Shador I think Shador wins that handedly and
02:39that's ultimately what I do want to see happen. So maybe I'm just I'm just laughing on the inside but
02:43I don't know I I think I think the discussions we're going into is going to be pretty wild all
02:47things
02:47considered. Yeah I just don't know how much I'm going to enjoy him. I think when it turns like
02:52there's just something about Deshaun being involved in the conversation that is an immediate tune out
02:57for me and it doesn't mean we're not going to have the conversations. Here's the other part. It's
03:01going to be our whole summer if it goes down the way that they're talking right now. But I mean
03:05basically change obviously. I think what's interesting is Todd Munkin has reportedly said he wants to have a
03:09starter named by Kemp. So good luck to him on that. So is it going to be OTAs? We're just
03:14going to be real
03:15hot and heavy in OTAs talking about the three passes they let the media actually see? Spoiler
03:20alert I just don't believe Todd Munkin when he says that. I mean I just don't know how he would
03:24get
03:24that result unless they already know that Deshaun's not even in the running and then it's just Shador's
03:29job. Could also be the case. It might be the case. Like I honestly I was like maybe that's the
03:34other
03:34part of it. I don't think Deshaun's a real competitor. Well I think that's so that's where I think you
03:39had
03:39to meet Mary Kay a little bit halfway in the middle right because she was doing some projecting as if
03:43we're actually having this this big race between the two of them and it's going to be a real thing
03:47and a real battle and day in day out quarterback tracker nonsense and everything else that comes
03:51with it. We might not even get to that spot. Listen if you want to trade for J.J. McCarthy
03:56and it should door versus J.J. I'll get wildly entertained. I'll be very heated. I'll be very
04:04animated. But in the end whoever wins that is a win for me because it's going to legitimize that
04:10quarterback to that locker room. Okay yeah sure. Shador versus Kirk Cousins a quarterback I really
04:16want no part of. Yeah sure I'll get behind that. Why the hell not? It's going to be summer. What
04:22else
04:22do I have to do? This isn't about getting behind things though. This isn't I mean like there's
04:26enjoyment from. Get into it is maybe the better way of putting it. Okay. I can't get into this. I
04:31can't.
04:31Oh I can get into it. It's it's because it's Shador like I know I'm one road here. I become
04:39only Shador and Shador only. That's a fun ride. Let's take that ride together. Yeah but
04:44where we meet in the middle is just saying just yelling at people day in day out. Deshaun can't
04:49do it. He's not the answer. Then hey let's break bread over that. Where's the entertaining part of that?
04:56How about we break bread? That's not a lot of spin in the wheels. Man I can have I could
04:59be I can
05:00have fun talking basically any two quarterbacks you throw out there in general. I'm going to have
05:04fun. I like quarterback competitions. I like talking quarterbacks in general. I like quarterback
05:07competitions. The the whole idea that they would actually consider Deshaun as a real threat to win
05:14the starting quarterback job. I'm fascinated by like when we have Albert on in an hour. Albert's
05:18going to tell us that this is the Sean Watson thing is not a farce. He's going to tell us
05:21that the
05:22Deshaun Watson thing is something they're taking seriously and something that we should be taking
05:25seriously as well. And I'm just I'm dying to find out how people do this over that stretch of
05:30football when I don't think the guy can play anymore. And not only do I not think he can
05:33play anymore. It's been 700 days another 700 days since you've seen him play. And I think
05:37he gets too injured constantly. And I think it's going to blow up in their face and it's
05:41going to let your door start which works for me because it's what I want to see. But I'll
05:44be entertained regardless. I think when the best possible scenario from the Deshaun side
05:49of this is you having to pay Deshaun more money in the future and extend this abyss and
05:55trying to cling to his future, that sounds like an absolute freaking nightmare. Shador,
06:01I can understand. Hey, let's see what the kids got. The playmaking thing is real, whether
06:06people want to give him that or not. Any of the other quarterbacks in the market, including
06:09guys I don't believe in. Yeah, sure. Hey, different circumstance. I can get into any quarterback
06:17battle that I have. Listen, I have lived RG three McCown and Kessler. Okay. We've all
06:24done the dance with the devil in the pale moonlight before when it comes to crappy quarterback
06:27competitions. Fine. Not this one. I can't, I can't endorse it as a legitimate thing. If
06:34Deshaun Watson again, if he is the silent partner, if he's the Shador this year, if he's
06:39like, well, it's Shador versus Carson back. And then Deshaun's over here and he's throwing
06:45the ball boys. All right. We'll see you through right through it and I'll be able to enjoy
06:48it. All right. I think Carson back is going to do it, but hell, why not? Let's have that
06:54conversation. Shador versus Deshaun. I'm just going to be cringing. Anytime Deshaun has a
06:59better day than Shador. Absolute cinema. Uh, the, the responses from people, the freak
07:05out from people like yourselves, uh, it's yourselves from you is going to be really, really, it's
07:10going to be fun to watch. I'm going to be honest with you. All right. There's a part of
07:13me that's going to sit back and get popcorn and let's get this thing on. And there's
07:16a comfort and ease there. Cause I, I really do believe Shador would win that job. So
07:20what's your reaction? I'm not too concerned by it. Well, then, then, then it's a freak
07:23out. Then we have a real issue on our hands. Uh, I would, I would be very surprised if that
07:28is what ends up happening. Then maybe it would be entertaining to me. But we'll think, we'll
07:32think about it. That's, that's, it's kind of like, like, could they realistically go down
07:35this road? This guy that has just basically been, uh, an albatross to the franchise, Troy
07:40Aikman's words, not mine, but they might as well be mine. Like, like, uh, everything they've been
07:44through with this guy to go back to him and then to tell everybody that he's the answer. I would
07:49be so curious from a football perspective. What do they see? What do they think they can get out
07:54of him? Why do they think he's the better answer? And that, uh, all of that and everything that
07:58comes with it makes it wildly interesting to me. Also, I think we're going to be having Albert
08:02Breer at five today. Uh, so just a quick note on that one, uh, working to move Albert up in
08:08the
08:08show to get him on, but two, one, six, four, seven, four, double Oh nine, two. Uh, Mary
08:13K described, uh, a Shador Deshawn quarterback battle is wildly entertaining, very heated and
08:20very animated. Is that how you would describe it? I wouldn't describe it very heated. Let's
08:24put it that way. Uh, cause the, the trying to do the toe for toe tail of the tape type
08:30discussion that she was having there, it lost me a little bit, but the other part of it, I
08:35think, yeah, I think wildly entertaining. I think I'm right there with her.
08:38I am not entertained. Oh, you're going to be entertained. I will. I refuse to force you to
08:43be entertained. You're going to be entertained. I don't think that's how entertainment works.
08:46No, but like, it's like three months of your life. I would, I really, I'm really hoping you find
08:51the positive angles out of this one, because the, if it turns into, and it might, I'm going to be
08:57Harry Doyle. I'm going to be pulling out the bottle of, of a scotch in the sixth inning every day
09:03on this show. Just talking about one pass, one GD pass. That's where we're going to go.
09:10No different than our Cavs discussions. Drunk Nick could be a lot of fun.
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