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00:00on the make it right call Kyle Wright hotline Albert Breer joins us now with the MMQB Albert
00:05welcome back to the show sir hey guys how you doing uh we're gearing up for the OSU pro day
00:11how about yourself oh yeah that's tomorrow right I always get these things mixed up but it's
00:17tomorrow I believe so yeah I'm ready although I don't think the top guys I mean if I'm Sonny
00:23Styles I am not lifting a finger um while I'm there you know so there are a few of those
00:28guys
00:29I think maybe like Caleb Downs has some stuff to do right but most of them I think probably stand
00:34on
00:34what they did in Indy right I think that's fair I do think it's interesting though like this is a
00:40pretty loaded top 10 top 15 top 20 for Ohio State and if you ask me right now like who
00:45has the most
00:46buzz on them in the draft I maybe I'd lean Arvel Reese but so from your perspective who do you
00:52hear most about from this Ohio State team and the hopefuls well I think the guy who's going to go
00:57highest is probably Arvel Reese I the guy who's created the most buzz is probably Sonny Styles
01:03um and then the guy who is probably considered the best like prospect um if you take positional value
01:10out of it would be Caleb Downs which to me like kind of explains like the the the depth of
01:18the group
01:18and the balance of the group and you know Carnell Tate could go in the top 10 and he might
01:22be the
01:23fourth best prospect coming out of the school um in a given year which is also wild you know
01:28um then you got Caden McDonald you get like a little further down the line and
01:33you know you're talking about guys like David Davis and Nick Vinosan and Caden Curry and I mean it's
01:40it's deep it's balanced um and I and I think like it's sort of indicative of where Ryan Day has
01:46the
01:46program right now like I mean this feels like every year last year they had 14 guys drafted and yet
01:52like we're back here again and we're talking about them having you know four or five first round
01:57picks and maybe another 10 guys drafted this uh Albert I want to get into like Carnell Tate and
02:03everything in just a second I do want to tell you though the uh multiple reports now have that Joe
02:07Flacco has reached an agreement with the Bengals on a one-year deal what's your initial thought on that
02:12doesn't surprise me I mean I think that this is sort of um you know where Joe is in his
02:17career and he
02:18enjoyed his time in Cincinnati last year and I think you know the opportunity to go
02:24and uh play a second year in offense um and and and really kind of you know work with one
02:30of the
02:30best quarterbacks in the game if you're not going to be the starter yourself I think it's a pretty
02:34appealing thing for a guy like him so you know good chance to go chase a ring um you know
02:40see if you
02:41can be part of a champion get to work with one of the best in the game be in a
02:45place that you're
02:45comfortable with and if you have to play I mean my god like the talent they have on that side
02:50of
02:50the ball um you'll be put in a real position to succeed so again like absent the chance to go
02:57be
02:57a starter somewhere it seems like a pretty good place for an older vet all right Albert past couple
03:01days uh we've had a lot of Ty Simpson conversations Dan Orlowski's been on every single place just
03:07championing it uh and like should we be taking that combo more seriously for the Browns at six or 24
03:12we kind of tucked it away but is that something we should be paying more attention to yeah I mean
03:18I really respect Dan first of all um yeah I've always had a good relationship rapport with him
03:22um I just haven't heard it yet but I I mean to be fair like I just haven't I haven't
03:28dove in on
03:30my trap draft calls the way I I you know I I will over the next few weeks the way
03:36I do every year
03:36you know I normally get to in the first week of April and then you know I start um really
03:42going
03:43all in on the draft and and I've got an idea of who's going where now um but just as
03:49far as like
03:49how the 32 teams feel about Ty Simpson I mean I can give you like my two cents on where
03:54I am right
03:55now with those calls and that's like I'd say Fernando Mendoza is a very clear cut number one
04:00and there's a significant fall off and uh most people I've talked to don't think Ty Simpson's a
04:06first-round pick but that doesn't mean that I won't have 15 to 20 people over the next two or
04:11three weeks tell me that he is you know so um it's still a little early for me to be
04:16talking
04:17definitively here um but I hadn't seen Ty Simpson that way I was a little surprised to see what Dan
04:22said Albert Breer on the make it right call Kyle Wright hotline joining us as he does every single
04:29Tuesday to talk all the big headlines around uh the NFL uh in terms of JSN obviously he resets the
04:36wide receiver market uh so I guess this is the dreaded two-parter uh who is this the biggest
04:41win for in the wide receiver market guys getting ready to be paid and what impact does this kind
04:46of have on the roster building across the NFL that not only now do we have edge rushers and pass
04:52rushers making 40 plus million but now wide receivers as well well I mean I think you know on
04:57your first question the obvious one's Puka Nakua um and we'll see you know how the Rams approach that
05:04um but I think he would be the one that would be like the next one up where you would
05:08look like okay
05:08like that's probably a guy who statistically was very similar to JSN last year obviously um I think
05:16he's a guy who's got some growing up to do so maybe they wait him but they make him wait
05:19a little bit
05:19longer in the offseason but um you know ultimately I do I think they probably get something done I think
05:25there's a good chance they get something done there and so then you know you'd be talking about
05:31um what effect this has on the market in general and I think the interesting part about it guys is
05:36kind of like we've seen like you said edge rusher go up over 40 we've seen receiver go up over
05:4240
05:43so does that embolden you know the corners who are out there looking for deals one of JSN's teammates
05:48is actually one of those guys Devin Witherspoon Christian Gonzalez in New England do those guys ask for
05:53not like a little bit over the 31 that Trent McDuffie got but say hey we deserve to be you
05:59know
05:59in that rarefied air um in the 40s as well um offensive tackle is another one where you know that's
06:05clearly a premium position but we haven't seen the market shoot up like that you know so does that have
06:11an effect with say what San Francisco is trying to do with Trent Williams going forward um you know I
06:16think all these things are sort of you know now on the table um you know where are the chargers
06:22a year
06:22from now with Joe Alt you know like is Joe Alt now you know 40 45 million dollar player not
06:29based on
06:29where the tackle market went but based on where you know the non non-quarterback market went so
06:34I think there's a bigger picture effect to all of this that um you know goes beyond just receivers
06:40and edge rushers and you know I think a huge part of it is a result of the cap going
06:45up and as long as
06:46the cap keeps going up this way um you know I I do that you're going to continue to see
06:51the numbers go
06:52up I think the one and I know I'm running on a little bit here but I think the one
06:56thing that
06:56is sort of interesting about this the numbers could get so big like you start to wonder like does this
07:03create like maybe a little bit more of a big market small market dynamic you know or you know
07:09you start to talk about the escrow rule and everything else when it comes to guaranteed money
07:13um does it become more difficult for smaller market
07:18pays to play on this stuff especially when it comes to signing free agents like signing your
07:22own is a little easier um you know I I think that that that certainly the numbers keep going up
07:28this
07:28way you know we start to talk about like the cash on hand sort of situation there and um and
07:35that
07:36could be an issue for some teams for sure it's interesting you put it that way because like I you
07:40know
07:40small market versus big markets obviously that matters a lot for us here but we have an owner
07:43in Jimmy Haslam the Browns do that spends like crazy and so it almost kind of feels like you we
07:48talk about in baseball for instance uh the difference with payrolls but some small markets or smaller
07:52markets like the Padres for instance are able to spend at an elite rate because they have owners that
07:56just they just they look at the money and say we can we can spend it we can do that
08:00right and a lot of
08:02it kind of comes down to how committed your owner is and I mean it's just I look like this
08:08is my
08:08personal feeling they need to get rid of the funding rule I I like do you guys know about that
08:14you guys
08:14know how that works right yeah that they have to have the money in escrow when signing a big free
08:19agent
08:20well so basically the way it works is every fully fully guaranteed dollar that you spend um you know
08:27you have to either give to the player or put into an escrow account right so for example the Seahawks
08:35um gave JSN 69 million dollars fully guaranteed I think he gets somewhere and I have to look at this
08:42again but I think he gets like close to 40 of it this year whatever that number is um the
08:48rest of that
08:49you know the rest of that that 69 million then they have to give to the league and that goes
08:55into an
08:55escrow account and so that rule was in place um back when you had like teams folding and stuff you
09:05know what I mean like where it was like a way to make sure that if you are guaranteeing a
09:10player money
09:10that you aren't gonna you know walk away and be like oh well we can't we don't have the cash
09:17to do
09:17that so like that's the way that's the way it used to work that's not really a problem for any
09:23anybody anymore but the reason the owners have kept it in the rules is because it's become a kind
09:29of a red herring you know where they can say to a player well we would guarantee you the money
09:34but we don't have a hundred million dollars to put into an escrow account right now you know and so
09:41it's it's become this mechanism that owners have used to prevent fully guaranteed contracts from
09:49becoming the standard and it's worked and that's why they fought to keep the funding rule in place
09:55despite the fact that they're making money hand over fist so this is where that rule could wind up
10:03I I think being a problem for some owners you know because if you're talking about like these just
10:07massive sums of money and say you have to put like I don't know a hundred hundred and fifty million
10:13dollars in escrow account to pay your quarterback well that could affect how you're able to pay the
10:19rest of your roster or if you're able to give other people fully guaranteed money and you can see where
10:24there'd be like a cascading effect to the way all that would work so I I think it's just it's
10:30just an
10:30interesting thing to look at and and and you know I think part of it is again the owner is
10:36not wanting
10:37to fully guarantee contracts but as the numbers keep to keep escalating you know god knows what the next set
10:43the tv deals are going to do the salary cap it could have a real effect of the way nfl
10:48teams do
10:48business albert I know we've talked about uh this previously when it's come up but uh you know the
10:54browns officially put forth their proposal uh to extend the draft pick window trading from three years
11:01to five years the one thing we haven't asked you is did is there a good sense of whether this
11:06actually
11:06has a decent chance of passing or not I my sense is the browns put this idea on the table
11:16with the
11:17hope that maybe over the next year or two it'll really be considered I think a lot of times when
11:22you're talking about this level of change um there's going to be some hesitation right and
11:28uh there's going to be a feeling out process like do we really want to do this now standard
11:32none of the leagues is interesting I did some digging on this over the weekend so you know in
11:37the NBA you can trade first round picks seven years out but every other year you have to have a
11:42first
11:42round pick um in major league baseball you can't trade draft picks at all in hockey there's no limit
11:48on anything you see you can trade a pick 20 years out if you want to um the reason that
11:53these rules
11:54are in place to restrict to restrict teams is because they want to try to avoid I don't know like
12:00a head
12:00coach or GM who's on the hot seat from just selling out and the NFL's interest is making sure that
12:07every
12:07franchise is elite is at least competitive and you know you're trying to avoid by doing this
12:14a situation where some team has a general manager a head coach that is trying to save his job that
12:23starts selling the farm to try to win in the current year maybe you have an owner who doesn't care
12:28and then that doesn't work and now that team three years later is god awful and has no hope
12:33that's what the NFL is trying to avoid what the Browns are saying is that we should have more
12:39flexibility with this based on the standards in the other leagues and we should be responsible for
12:45ourselves so if this sort of thing is happening or a problem well that's really on the teams um you
12:52know and so it's an interesting argument and I think it's going to be an interesting point of
12:56discussion at the the meetings next week but I don't think the Browns like put this on the table
13:02thinking that it was going to sail right through I think the idea was to create some discussion and
13:06then maybe in a year or two it winds up going through Albert I don't know did you see Jarvis
13:10Landry's comments on Kevin Stefanski at all or do you need me to give you like a quick synopsis
13:14not no give me this an offset all right uh one thing he had said was it almost felt like
13:18as much
13:19as he knew what he was doing he really maybe didn't and then he also criticized Stefanski for
13:23his inability to connect with players and it was just a he also went on this whole other thing about
13:28how uh Stefanski actually had given up the play calling to AVP at one point which would have been
13:32the third time actually the first time he'd done it but then would have made it three times total and
13:36we just never really knew that was this Jarvis do you think uh like I guess I'd ask you how
13:42bad of
13:42a look is it for Stefanski that someone as reputable as Jarvis is and really how how revered he is
13:49is
13:50saying these comments when did it come out like I mean what was the context for the comment he was
13:56on
13:56a podcast with Leonard Fournette okay okay um yeah I mean I like I don't have any reason to doubt
14:04like his feelings on it um you know you always have to like kind of dig into those things and
14:09and see if there was an ax to grind I I've always thought you know Kevin I think you guys
14:14know this
14:15well enough right like Kevin's never going to be the guy who's flipping the Gatorade table over it
14:20at halftime of games or or getting guys riled up it's just not his style he is very much himself
14:25that
14:26way um and is very comfortable in his own skin and so yeah I think because of that it's a
14:31little bit of
14:31a different coaching style that maybe I would say isn't isn't necessarily isn't necessarily for
14:38everyone now what I do think is that he's a really really smart guy a good leader um really good
14:45from
14:45like a football know-how standpoint um so I think he checks all those boxes but I mean if if
14:51I if I
14:52found out that like maybe like he wasn't the right fit um for a guy like Jarvis Landry it wouldn't
15:00it
15:01wouldn't totally shock me so that's how I would take it all right Albert uh looking to uh the Browns
15:07here when it comes to the starting quarterback spot still no new quarterback in that room although
15:11there is time to the draft and certainly the draft itself if we ask you right now what percentage chance
15:17would you give Shador to start week one for the Browns what what percentage point are you setting
15:24oh
15:2830 maybe oh I don't know I mean I I still think guys I still think Deshaun's gonna get a
15:36shot I mean I
15:36just I look at all the money they've sunk into it and I there's just I mean I think I
15:45asked you guys
15:45this but didn't you say you guys thought to do or had a better chance to be a a really
15:49good NFL
15:50quarterback than Deshaun going forward I believe we are in unison on this one yes sir okay see I don't
15:57believe that like I I just don't like I I I think there is a reason why he why Deshaun
16:04at one point
16:05was the 12th overall pick in the draft there's a reason why Deshaun was once the high or twice the
16:11highest paid player in all football there is so much demonstrated evidence of Deshaun Watson being
16:21a really good NFL quarterback and we have none on this Shador so does that mean I think it's likely
16:28that Deshaun gets up back up to the level he was at the end in Houston no I'm not saying
16:33that
16:33um but I mean I I think even if he got 80 percent of the way there it would be
16:40higher than that would
16:41be a higher level than a lot of teams perceive the ceiling for Shador Sanders and so I I just
16:48look
16:48at it and I I think to myself if I'm the Browns I'm just this is me talking right guys
16:54not the Browns
16:55talking this is me talking but if I've already sunk all that money into Deshaun Watson it's going to be
17:02what 235 million dollars whatever that number is and I can't get out of that money for this year
17:08and he's still relatively young for his position don't I owe it to myself to make sure he's not the
17:16answer before I let him go off somewhere else next year especially when I have a new coaching staff
17:22that doesn't have the skeletons in the closet with him that you know Stefanski and and then that staff
17:29had like it was just what weighed that staff down with him I think was the history of going through
17:34the trade together and everything else like you have none of that now you know so there's a chance
17:39to kind of get a fresh set of eyes on him there's a chance to get a fresh perspective on
17:43him there's a
17:44chance to let him compete for a job I I just I don't know guys like I just I've seen
17:49Deshaun Watson play
17:50at a high level too much to not think that maybe he maybe he could get to a like a
17:55just a a middle of
17:57the pack quarterback level and I don't know that we've seen that Shadour can do that so I I that's
18:03the way I look at it um and I might wind up being totally wrong on that like again this
18:08is just me
18:09talking but I think logically if I'm the Browns and this is going to be a transition year anyway
18:17um unless unless Shadour really shows me a lot more than he showed me last year I'm probably
18:23looking at this like I want to make totally sure that we got wrong on Deshaun Watson before the
18:29contract expires it's just been six years we we really don't have time to debate but I we just it's
18:35been six years we don't know and we don't know and this is without knowing what they're going to do
18:39with the draft but I mean I I know what you're saying I know what you're saying it's been five
18:43years
18:43by the way not six you know I'm sure it feels like seven or eight but like 2026 to 2020
18:48and this
18:50is year five 2022 well I mean I mean it's it's it's six years since we saw Deshaun because you
18:56guys
18:56are both right yeah oh yeah yeah yeah you're right about that yeah I I know what you're saying I
19:01know
19:01what you're saying and another 700 days in between him playing by the way right but I mean like could
19:07you compare it to like Sam Darnold how he saw I mean Sam Darnold kind of disappeared for a little
19:14while and came back like there have been got Geno Smith like kind of disappeared for a little while
19:20and came back like I I just I mean like I I don't know I mean I've seen enough reclamation
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