00:00widely commented. Dane Brugler called it the best draft. I think Todd McShay called it one
00:05of the five best drafts. And it really felt like once the Browns got Denzel Boston with their
00:11first second round pick and then traded back up to get Emmanuel McNeil Warren into the back of
00:17the second round, it really felt like everybody just stopped the match and decided the Browns
00:23first four picks, that's enough. That's the best draft in the NFL. I stopped the match. I decided
00:28at that point, I'm like, all right, I guess I was like, yeah, we'll pay attention to what happens
00:32obviously. But yeah, after that, everything else was just gravy. You hit on the first four
00:36an incredible run. I can't believe they went back to back wide receiver, even though that's
00:41what I was calling for on Friday. And then I can't believe it was Denzel Boston, a guy
00:44I thought was better than Casey Concepcion and a guy I wanted at 24 between that and the
00:49Emmanuel McNeil Warren. Like, how do you not get excited? Yeah. McNeil Warren to me felt
00:54like JOK five years ago where I remember watching JOK keep falling in the draft. And I know that
01:00there was the worry about the heart issue. He's also a kind of hybrid linebacker. So there's
01:07some positional stuff there. But I remember just thinking like, man, that's the kind of
01:11guy that always falls to Baltimore, right? Just a good football player. No BS, you know,
01:17dominant in the college game, incredibly athletic. And so when the Browns kept trading down and
01:22then they got him, I think they had to trade back up to get him. I remember just fist pumping.
01:26It's like, that's the kind of guy we don't get. I feel the same way about Emmanuel McNeil
01:30Warren of like, it fell a little bit because he's a safety fell a little bit, I think, because
01:35it's a really strong safety draft as well. And then I think you probably maybe factor in
01:40the Toledo thing a little bit as well. Cause again, it seems like that really set them back
01:44for some reason. There were, there were a fair amount. I mean, what? There were like four
01:49guys drafted from like the FCS. There were only like a certain handful amount of guys
01:54taken from the group of five. So there really is like a have and have not world. They're
01:58attached to it. And I listened to Kat Hickman after the announcement was made and it was
02:03like, like, they're like, all right, so like, what did you see? Cause she was one of the
02:05ones that was like there in Toledo and it was like being basically she's being held
02:09responsible for them taking Emmanuel McNeil Warren. And, and like the whole, the whole
02:14genesis of that was that like, she believed that obviously he could have gone
02:18anywhere, but he was just a unique guy. And that is him wanting to finish it and
02:22stay in Toledo. If he owed Toledo, something was just something you're not
02:26going to see anywhere else. Yeah. And it's, it's by the way, there have been a
02:29couple of players who that's helped as well, but like when it's the Denzel
02:34Boston thing gives me a peace of mind about Casey Concepcion. So it's not all about
02:39him. If Casey continues to struggle, I know by the way, people have, I think
02:43have written off said Tillman as well. No, I think you've got two guys. I think
02:47you're stacked double at each of the positions, a wide receiver, right? I think
02:52Boston and Tillman can be your X receivers. You can then move over to your
02:56slot guys and you move over to, to your other outside receiver. Like I think you
03:01actually are, are six deep here. And I think from the six guys that make the
03:05roster, I think you're going to have enough here. I think that's the,
03:09I think it sucks for like the Gage Varvidans of the world. Well, that's,
03:13that's, that's football life. Gage's competition is Isaiah Bond, who was also
03:16an undrafted free agent. Even if people thought he was a top, you know, 100
03:20player from last year's draft, who I guess this was on Instagram a couple
03:22minutes ago was tweeting out about him changing numbers. Isaiah Bond is going
03:25to be number zero now. And then he did a double zero thing. And I didn't know, I
03:28didn't know where the other zero is. Is that like the O in Bond? Is that what
03:31that is? Can you go O seven? That would have been great. Yeah. Can you, or is it
03:36just seven? Why can't you go O seven? I don't know. Tyson Campbell is number
03:42seven right now. Oh, there's a zero and there's a double zero that they allow
03:47that. That is true. Why can't it just be a different version of seven? Oh, I'm
03:51not seven. I'm O seven. See, but then people would be like, we, it's not double
03:55O seven. We need to be double O seven. Can we make this thing happen? Come on,
04:00Roger. You got nothing else to fix and be cool for once in your life, NFL. Come on.
04:04We could tell you nerd. Um, but no, I mean, I, it's funny. Like I, you, I think
04:10you can nitpick, right? Um, Casey Concepcion's the guy in the entire draft
04:14that scares me. I think taking barber probably cause you hope he's more of a
04:20tackle than Jennings dunker who went six, I think six or eight picks later. I feel
04:26like that was a missed opportunity. I think Jennings fits what you want to do.
04:29And I think Jennings could be your long-term right guard. I'm nitpicking. Yeah, that's
04:34all. And, but that's a great place to be in for the second straight year. And
04:38honestly, I think you could have more nitpicks last year because the double
04:41quarterback draft and the double running back draft than you can this year. I
04:44mean, the most important part of all this for myself, Nick, is that it doesn't
04:46seem as if they're just waving the white flag on the offense in 2026. Now,
04:50maybe their big plan at the end of this is to get everything lined up to then
04:54in 2027, insert a different quarterback, but at least Shador or whoever ends up
04:58winning that job. And I think it'll be Shador. They're going to have a real chance
05:01with this offense. They didn't have a real chance last year. Now we're looking
05:04around and you got offensive linemen everywhere. You have wide receivers
05:07everywhere. I don't know that it'll work. I don't know that's going to pan out, but
05:10at least you're giving these guys a chance. Yeah. And it's funny because usually if
05:14you're drafting offensive linemen into your top five picks, it's really hard for
05:18people to under, because how many people actually watch trench play, right? But you
05:24did draft two wide receivers. You did draft a ball hawk safety. Like you, you
05:29drafted, you know, 60% of your first five picks are playmakers. I mean, the
05:33offense is going to have six brand new guys starting this year and could, if
05:38Brailsford ends up actually taking the center job and then you could do
05:41something with Jenkins and move him inside, you could potentially seven new
05:43guys on the offensive side of the ball. That was one guy that I, it just felt
05:47like Nick Harris 2.0. Oh yeah. Yeah. He gets a Brailsford's getting a lot of love
05:51from people and I get it. He's a very nice movement center, but it's like, yeah, but
05:57he's 290 pounds. That's I know, I know we're not the AFC North of like 15 years
06:04ago where you were facing consistently 350, 360 pound nose tackles. Baltimore has
06:10gigantic defensive linemen. I thought we went over Baltimore's defensive linemen.
06:15We went over the offensive linemen. That's right. I'm thinking Broderick
06:18Washington. I knew we, I knew we checked the weight on somebody. Uh, I, I just, but
06:23I'm just looking at this offense and I'm looking at how different it is, how
06:25different it's going to look. And like, this is just, I just, I'm, I'm happy
06:28that it doesn't seem like they were just going to go with the status quo, basically
06:31send whatever quarterback out to the wolves and say, good luck. Like they did
06:34last year. This is a, this is a real attempt at it, Nick. And that's a good
06:38thing. Yeah. And, and I think that's important because if, if Fano can stick
06:43at left tackle and you've got a couple of guys who are going to be here for at
06:47least two years. And of course you're getting these wide receivers with at least one
06:52of those wide receiver hits a year from now, you'll be able to say, well, we've
06:56got enough on offense to deploy and, and to take a quarterback if we pick high
07:00enough. And I think that's, and to say you gave Deshaun or Shador or Dylan
07:05Gabriel or Talon Green, like whoever's the starting quarterback this year, I think
07:09you've also given them enough to say you gave them a real chance.
07:13That's the point. That's the entire thing I'm stressing here is like, it just
07:16didn't seem like it was last year where it didn't matter if it was Dylan Gabriel or
07:20Trador Sanders or anyone in between, you just never felt like the offense even
07:24had a chance and a quarterback could actually be evaluated. This feels like
07:27enough to evaluate a quarterback off of. I also think it's enough to, to give Todd
07:31Munkin a chance to, to run the offense. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. And so like, I,
07:36you know, I, I think, I think Kevin was a part of the non-functionality of the
07:41offense last year. Um, I, I don't, it's not like Kevin forgot how to coach, but I do
07:45think there's something about going through the, the, the drying cycle or the
07:49rinse cycle of being an NFL head coach that at some point he lost the plot
07:53about the offense he wanted to run and how to run it and how everybody fit into
07:57it. And, and, and that happens when you're too close to the problem. I think a
08:02set of fresh eyes and Todd Munkin is going to be huge. And now you've given him
08:06some pieces to kind of work with. And so, you know, if you get a modicum of
08:12health upfront and you can start the same five guys or some combination of the
08:17same five or six guys for 17 games, 18 weeks, that's going to give you a real
08:23chance to be at least watchable and functional on offense. And then it comes
08:27down to, all right, what's, what's the kind of exchange rate going from, uh, Jim
08:31Schwartz at DC to, to Rutenberg. Yeah. Uh, it just, it's funny. Just look at the
08:36depth chart. Just the, I mean, there's an actual depth here that didn't exist.
08:39Let's say two months ago, but we're having some of these discussions. You get past, uh,
08:42the starters and even some of the starters, and you'd be like, this just, this is dead on
08:46arrival. This doesn't have a chance. And now we can actually talk about like real
08:50offensive lineman battles that should exist. And even wide receiver battles that
08:53should exist. And it just gives, it gives a life to this team. It's a good
08:56thing. About four years ago, we would go through the 53 man roster kind of
09:02projections and we go, Oh man, but I don't want to cut that guy. You know, there
09:05were, there were five or six guys every year on the initial 53, 54 man roster that
09:11you would go, Oh, we're going to lose this guy or man. Hopefully he can make it on the
09:14practice squad that we've had. Guys were interested in like Luke Floria, like, uh,
09:20Gage Larva, Dan, but you were, you know, you didn't know if those were NFL guys yet.
09:28Yeah. It feels like you're back to the point of there is going to be, there's
09:33going to be some pain in August when, in September, when you're trying to trim down
09:36the roster, that's a sign that the last two drafts have started to really replenish
09:40the cupboard. And that, that credit does go to Andrew Barry. Oh, we just don't have
09:44to try to make, uh, you know, wait second camp invites that went to schools that we
09:48don't really care about, uh, matter as if it's the great, the greatest, uh, thing to
09:52ever happen to the Browns. I'm still a big Luke Floria fan. I don't care.
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