00:00Jeff Phelps set social media on fire. All of Cleveland Sports Twitter had something to say
00:07about Jeff Phelps. And obviously yesterday, we talked about Monroe Freeling being a potential
00:14reach at six. And that's because of some of the criticisms of Monroe. He is raw. He is not very
00:21strong. These are not things you want to hear. He might not be a play week one kind of guy,
00:26might be a sit on the bench for a year kind of guy. Well, Phelps has eschewed that,
00:31looked the other way and said, maybe we need to be talking about the Browns drafting a wide
00:36receiver at six and whether that's a reach. It's going to be a tough sell if they don't
00:41pull something off. And I think it's putting Todd Munkin in a tough spot. Hey, you're the
00:46offensive guru. Here's the same stuff that we rolled out last year. Please do something with it.
00:51They're going to pull something off. At the very least, it's a draft choice.
00:54All right. So let me throw it in this way. That's tough to put on some kid you might
00:58draft with a sixth overall pick. Hi, can you be the answer to an offense that wasn't very good?
01:02At this point, Andy, I don't know why I feel this way, but I kind of do. I think it's
01:07the overall
01:08lack of attention to the wide receiver position other than a couple of trades that this regime
01:14has had. If they draft a wide receiver at six, it almost feels like a panic to me.
01:18Really?
01:19A little bit.
01:20All right. One, we can't really slough the whole other than a couple of trades at wide
01:26receiver because the trades at wide receiver tend to be the best moves I've actually made
01:29at the position. That being said, I believe I would classify this and I can't believe I'm
01:35saying this about Jeff Phelps. I believe I would classify that last line there. If they
01:40took a wide receiver at six as a reach, I believe I'm going to classify this as an official
01:45hot take from Jeff Phelps. Well, and he doesn't give hot takes to give hot takes. He believes
01:49in it. Although he doesn't know why, which is funny. Well, that sounded like it was something
01:53from his gut or something. I'm very confused in how that works. At the very least, maybe
01:57in the midsection. I hate when people are like, oh, my gut tells me this as if that's
02:01a reason to get out of it. I always say my left foot. Yeah, but it's like, that's a part
02:07of you. You have to account for that. You don't get to then just use that as an excuse.
02:10My aorta is telling me right now. It's not a get out of jail free card. A part of your
02:15body is telling you this apparently. And if you're listening to it, then you're responsible
02:18for that. Also, it could be a real health crisis. If any part of your body is speaking
02:22to you, it'd be really weird. Like, okay, guys, is your body telling you maybe you have
02:27a tumor or LeBron shouldn't draft a wide receiver at six? I'm going to go with your body really
02:33only tells you about physical ailments. So what is the panic here? I don't see it.
02:38You have a need at wide receiver. There's three of them you could take at number six
02:43overall. What's the panic? I don't understand. Well, here's the thing. Like, Carnell Tate
02:49might end up going before you actually. So it's not like the Browns are the only team
02:53drafting wide receivers in the top 10. The Giants have been tied to him. Oh, gosh, Kansas
02:59City has been tied to Jordan Tyson. The Saints, now that they have Tyler Shuck, has been tied
03:04to them. Like, other teams in the top 10, even though they don't end up drafting a wide
03:07receiver, are seriously consider taking these guys, which I don't know is what we're going
03:12to say about Monroe Freeling, anywhere outside of maybe the top 11. I'm just trying to figure
03:18out where the panic sets in. Like, on draft night, if you end up going wide receiver,
03:21aren't we all just going to, we'll talk about the receiver, but aren't we going to be like,
03:25yeah, obviously, the team with wide receiver needs took a wide receiver at six overall.
03:29I'm going to go out here on a limb and say, if the Browns take Carnell Tate with a six
03:33pick
03:33on Thursday night, Jeff Phelps is not coming out here on Friday saying this is a reach.
03:39No, it's going to be simple. He'll be like, Jerry, Judy, you don't know what you got. You
03:42need somebody that's dependable and reliable. Carnell Tate has been that. Like, this makes
03:46too much sense. I agree with your assessment there. But how did we get to today? How did
03:52we get where Jeff Phelps is all of a sudden panicking? It is. It's March 18th. The man is
03:55acting like they just sent the card in and it was something that he hated.
03:59So I think it's twofold. I'm going to suggest that maybe Jeff thought they were going to make
04:04more than one move at wide receiver. When yesterday he was going down this Brandon
04:08Iyuk rabbit hole that he continues to go down. Like he clearly wants them to do something right
04:12now that isn't through the draft. By the way, Brandon has been rough for a couple of years
04:16and there are real concerns about putting him into that locker room. Yeah, but Phelps said this whole
04:21setup about like this is the time of the year that Andrew Barry signs these type of guys. And he
04:26went
04:26through. He's not wrong, but he went through like when they signed Amari Cooper was March
04:30and when they signed player X, player X, player X was all like this. This part of the season
04:35is his reaction based off of the idea that then they wouldn't have addressed anything else here.
04:40And that just he just thinks they're going to suck. I would rather draft two wide receivers in this
04:44draft. Then go out and chase a veteran right now after looking at the price on Jalen Waddle,
04:50who I think is good, not great right now. I understand he's a big play machine.
04:56Hadn't made enough of him in the last two years. But Jalen Waddle is still much different than even
04:58talking about Juwan Jennings or Brandon Iyuk or some of the or some of these other guys that have
05:03just been bandied about. Like it's like there is a night and day difference between those guys and
05:08then even someone like Jalen Waddle. But I think when it comes to the wide receiver spot,
05:11I understand what Jeff, there's a kernel in there that I actually might be able to agree with Jeff,
05:16which is you're at, you're taking a kid at six and saying, okay, now go fix the offense.
05:22But, and that's hard. But the only thing I would actually rebut on that is it's not like there
05:27aren't other NFL players in that locker room. I don't know what Isaiah Bond is in the NFL.
05:32Other people thought he was an NFL wide receiver. Two years ago, Jerry Judy was a thousand yard
05:37receiver. The only time that he's cracked that in the NFL has been in Cleveland. You go to Harold
05:42Finn and junior, you go to the fact that they have put significant resources towards that offensive
05:47line. So it's not, you know, if the Browns brought in five Braxton Joneses as it is on the offensive
05:54line, one year deals for $2 million or $4 million guaranteed. And then also, you know, only took,
06:02uh, you know, Carnell Tate or Jordan Tyson at six. Yeah. I would understand what he's saying.
06:07They didn't like outside of quarterback, the Browns have tried to address some of the flaws
06:12on the roster. And so it's not as if Carnell Tate's coming in here and in and of himself,
06:17he's got to fix this. Oh, and by the way, they're banking on internal improvements on guys like
06:21Isaiah Bond and some of the younger guys. But I would imagine they'd look at what happened with
06:24the Panthers, for instance, last year with McMillan and be like, we're going to, we want the offense
06:29to look drastically different. And you're going to have to be a big reason and big, and a big part
06:32of
06:32that. Uh, like as much as I like, uh, Coker, we're all Coke heads out here, aren't we? As much
06:36as I
06:37like Coker, like you guys know, so it's not. And we get, for instance, like there's, it's not as if
06:43the Panthers are just littered with great other options. What happened? McMillan came in. It's
06:47the best price. Young has looked. They didn't have to overhaul that offense. I just think the Browns
06:52have, I think they're doing a holistic thing here. Like they're there. Even if, even if Carnell
06:58Tate's your number one receiver and he's only an 800 yard receiving yard guy next year, that's still
07:03going to be better than what you had. And I think you're just going to spread the ball around and
07:07try
07:07and be better as a whole. And I think that is in, in lieu of a Jamar chase in this
07:12draft.
07:13I think the Browns are actually kind of doing that side outside of quarterback, which continues to
07:18annoy me outside of quarterback. I think a lot of their plan makes sense as offense to raise the
07:24floor of this, this offense, which was offensive last year. Yeah. But a lot of that would become
07:29dependent on if you take a guy at number six, let's say even Tyson, for instance, like a guy
07:32that has had a lot of injuries, you're an injury away from leaving us with, again, relying on Jerry
07:37Judy to save the day. And we can't, there was a thousand yard receiver two years ago. Yeah, but he
07:42wasn't last year and he had a lot of drop passes last year. I mean, guys fair. And he had
07:46a lot of
07:46drop passes the year before the people have turned Jerry Judy into an unplayable player. He's not
07:51unplayable. He's just not a, he's not a number one. He's not, but like he was your best receiver
07:56two years ago. I guess my point is like, I, I understand that there would be a lot of pressure
08:01if you take a wide receiver at six on that wide receiver, get it. It's not an overreach. No,
08:05an overreach is Monroe Freeling at six. I'm not saying it's an overreach, but I do agree with
08:09the sentiment. You are putting a lot on that player at number six to then be, that happens every year
08:13in
08:13the NFL draft. No denying that. Like you're the number six overall pick, but that's, that's more to the
08:18importance of if you take someone like Tyson, for instance, there is a roll of the dice
08:21attached to him with his medical situation. And so like, you have to, you just got to, again,
08:26obvious statement for a million dollars. So like, you just, you have to get this guy right
08:29because you're going to need him to be an impactful wide receiver. The Browns just did
08:34not have nearly enough at that position last year.
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