00:00I think they probably feel good in their decision.
00:04Now that all these Jarvis Landry clips are coming out,
00:07they can say, look, he won two coach of the years, he did.
00:10And for that, you'll never be able to take it away from him.
00:13But he did not connect to the players at all.
00:17And now that a guy like Jarvis Landry,
00:20Jarvis was on the team that beat Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh in the playoffs.
00:24Jarvis, I think, is one of the most underrated post-1999 Cleveland Browns
00:29for what he did on the field at a couple thousand yard receiving seasons,
00:32but what he did to try to pivot that losing culture.
00:35He took that personally, that task to try to mask some of the losing
00:41and some of the bad culture that happened in Berea.
00:43Jarvis took that to heart. He took it personally.
00:45I think he genuinely cared about that kind of stuff.
00:48So you've got a rah-rah guy like Jarvis Landry
00:51that wants to run through a brick wall for a coach
00:54that's looking to turn a culture around,
00:56and he can't even get out of bed for Kevin Stefanski?
00:59Red flags should be going up all over Atlanta.
01:02It's not our fish to fry anymore, candidly.
01:05And I think they fell in love with some of the intangibles
01:08that Todd Munkin has that Kevin Stefanski just didn't have in his DNA.
01:13The fact that Todd wants to create close, personal relationships
01:17for these players, that's his hope.
01:19And I know you were on with Ken Carman.
01:21I'm going to put you on the hot seat
01:23because you were being negative about the Monk, man.
01:26You were being negative about Todd Munkin.
01:28Wait a minute, time out.
01:28Did you just call him the Monk, man?
01:30You were being so negative, Daryl.
01:32Did I just hear that?
01:33Did he just call him the Monk, man?
01:35You were being negative about Todd.
01:37You were.
01:37You were saying that he's not going to coach you.
01:39I think the path for him to be the coach here for longer than two years
01:42is to do the things that Kevin Stefanski could never do,
01:46and that's relate to his team.
01:47That's communicate effectively with his players.
01:50There's a reason they move forward with this guy
01:53after they let go of the coach that won two coach of the years,
01:56and you just came on the radio earlier this week with Ken
01:59and just decided to dump on him for no reason.
02:02Listen, now I'm getting it from you.
02:05I got it from Nick Wilson, too.
02:07All I did was just lay out the big picture of what the scene looks like.
02:12Look.
02:12What?
02:13They're repairing the offense?
02:14They're doing exactly what we asked them to do.
02:16They're investing resources in the offensive line.
02:19They've got two first-round picks that will probably be a left tackle
02:23and a premium wide receiver.
02:24Oh, but the coach is going to get fired in a year or two years max.
02:28That's you, Ken.
02:29Probably, because that's how this works.
02:33Look, I'm not rooting against you.
02:35You can't just have a little bit of optimism for once that maybe this time
02:38because they found somebody that actually wants to connect with his team
02:43and connect with his players,
02:44and that's not just going to be an R2-D2 cyborg robot
02:48every time that you guys go into the press conferences,
02:51every time after they win a game.
02:54You don't have to deal with the robot anymore.
02:56This is a real football coach.
02:58This is a real football lifer.
02:59This dude's 60 years old, just now getting his first opportunity.
03:03You don't think there's a little bit of juice
03:05and a little bit of passion that goes into that?
03:07It's not about juice and passion.
03:09Your quarterback room right now is Deshaun Watson and Shador Sanders.
03:12They are legitimately talking about Deshaun Watson starting for this football team again.
03:17I'm going to be optimistic about that.
03:18Your wide receiver core.
03:20Let's see.
03:20You've got the pouty boy, Jerry Judy.
03:22You've got Cedric Tillman, who they forget is on the team.
03:26You've got Isaiah Bond, who can run one route.
03:30Harold Fannin Jr., who's great, but they're going to shut him down
03:34because he's the only guy you really got a game plan for.
03:37Quinshawn Judkins, who I'm optimistic about still,
03:41even though he started hot and then fizzled out like a sparkler.
03:48He got hurt.
03:50They've done nothing.
03:51And the offensive line was so bad.
03:53They brought in some new offensive linemen.
03:56Great.
03:56Guess what?
03:57You have to field five guys up front.
04:00Last year, those five guys were no better today.
04:03than KT Leveston.
04:04They started guys last year that probably wouldn't have started
04:08on Mount Union's offensive line.
04:10Here's why I'm not optimistic.
04:10I'm not going to rip them to shreds because they're actually trying
04:13to get off the mat here.
04:14Here's the thing.
04:15Here's why I'm not optimistic.
04:16Because they're no better offensively today than when they were
04:20when the season ended.
04:21Yeah, but they hired an offensive-minded head coach.
04:23So you hope that Munkin could bring some new ideology.
04:27Travis Switzer is a guy that has never been an offensive coordinator before,
04:31but he was the run game coordinator for Derrick Henry,
04:34who put together nice back-to-back thousand-yard seasons
04:37when everybody thought Derrick Henry was washed.
04:40Maybe we're going to run the ball, Daryl.
04:41Talking about not having a quarterback.
04:43Isn't that people wear shirts and hats in the dog pound
04:46that say, run the damn ball?
04:48Maybe that's what Munkin's going to do.
04:49Because, yeah, the quarterback thing is a little bit of a question mark.
04:52Left tackle is a question mark right now,
04:54and so is wide receiver.
04:55They're going to solve two of those things in the draft.
04:57They got two first-round picks, and you just go on with Ken,
05:01and you're like, Munkin's going to be gone in two years.
05:03It's a foregone conclusion.
05:05What if he's Bruce Arians?
05:06What if he comes in and starts winning games out of the gate?
05:09And it's going to be tough to do that when you've got no answer at quarterback,
05:13but what if they get a little bit better this year?
05:15That's all I'm looking for.
05:17Could you win six or seven games and at least be palatable offensively,
05:22and then you get your quarterback in 2027, and we're off to the races?
05:26I see what they're trying to do.
05:28I'm going to give them a little bit of credit for trying.
05:32Your existing skill, guys, can't even line up, right?
05:39Okay?
05:41They couldn't even do that last year.
05:43They could not line up.
05:45That's why they couldn't do any motion, because they couldn't do it.
05:48Well, what's that on, though?
05:49That's on coaching.
05:50I understand that.
05:51I'm just saying, though.
05:52And the coach is gone.
05:53The bad man is gone.
05:54But that's also a talent problem.
05:56That's a talent problem.
05:57That's an intelligence problem.
05:59That's a football intelligence problem.
06:01But who was coaching that up last year?
06:04You don't even know your assignment.
06:06Nobody cared last year to know that.
06:08You don't even know how to line up correctly.
06:12Because what was going on last year in the meeting?
06:15That's why I'm not optimistic.
06:16It's not about Todd Munkin.
06:18It's about what Todd Munkin's inheriting.
06:21And you have a GM who has a very high opinion of the players he brings in.
06:27That's valid.
06:28And he hangs on to them way too long.
06:32That's valid.
06:33I am so sick and tired of hearing about Cedric Tillman is this great red zone target.
06:41Then they get in the red zone and either Cedric Tillman is not on the field or they forget he's
06:46on the field.
06:49So, I was, you know, listen.
06:51I'm not rooting against Todd Munkin.
06:53Todd Munkin's a great guy.
06:55And he's going to be much more entertaining to be around than Kevin Stefanski ever will be.
07:00Okay?
07:01It's not about rooting against Todd Munkin or trying to be doom and gloom with Todd Munkin.
07:07It's about me objectively looking at the current state of affairs with this roster and what they have to work
07:14with.
07:16Defensively, there's a, yeah, that defense, they should be, that is a Super Bowl caliber defense they have.
07:23Their offense currently is Shador Sanders and Deshaun freaking Watson.
07:29Jackson, Isaiah Bond, Jerry Pouty Judy, Cedric Tillman.
07:39Five touchdowns in three years for your red zone threat, Cedric Tillman there, by the way.
07:45Not to continue firing you up.
07:46Jamari Thrash.
07:49These are your skill players, people.
07:52They have nine picks, though.
07:54I can't sell.
07:55They have nine picks.
07:56They're going to turn over a significant portion of that.
07:59But here's the thing.
08:00I'm not going to sit here and sell fans a bill of goods because I'm going to look stupid when
08:05they're back to being what they always are.
08:08And that is a terrible offensive team.
08:11Do you realize, for all the warts that Kevin Stefanski had as a head coach, and believe me, there's plenty
08:16of them.
08:17And Jarvis Landry's going to tell you each and every one, okay, on his podcast, for the eight years that
08:26the Browns averaged over 20 points per game in a season, came under Kevin Stefanski.
08:31See, this is a franchise that historically can't score, okay?
08:40They can't score points in a league in which the rulebook is written for you to be able to score
08:49with your eyes closed effortlessly.
08:53And these guys can't score.
08:57This franchise has been back for 27 seasons, Nick.
09:0119 of them, they couldn't put 20 points on the board with regularity.
09:07You can't win in the NFL like that.
09:10We're sitting here talking about the very real possibility that a dude who's played 19 games, no way, since 2020
09:20could very well be your starting quarterback in week one.
09:23And you want me to sit here and give Todd Munkin flowers and say how successful he's going to be
09:30and how he's going to flip this thing on his head?
09:32You're out of your mind.
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