00:00we actually came across a piece of audio from you on yahoo sports daily the other day where
00:04you said it is embarrassing that watson's in qb1 convo at the risk of being very simplistic
00:12why do you think that i mean other than that he can't play and he's not a great human being
00:20i
00:20can't figure out any other reason other than that like i i don't know why the browns are doing this
00:25i just don't i can't understand it i would literally rather have and if the other franchise
00:30that had any soul conscience uh regard for how people thought of me regard for the fans i would
00:37rather start anybody than deshaun watson chador sanders for sure dylan gabriel for sure taylor
00:43green sure why not go find what brian sipe is up to these days i'd rather start him than deshaun
00:48i
00:48would literally literally rather sign a guy off the street to start the deshaun watson and i know
00:52there's contractual stuff but i'd say sorry man here you're going to be practicing on the other
00:57field the whole time we're not playing you you we got to keep you around because we just have to
01:01but we're not playing you like at some point even even jimmy haslam who by the way i'm a milwaukee
01:07fan
01:07he's killing my bucks so two teams are got the haslam curse on them jimmy haslam already threw in
01:12the towel here so we took a big swing and miss we we screwed up under shawne watson and then
01:18there's
01:18this weird media blitz i don't get this i wrote about this in my preview you go back to last
01:23december 6th both adam schefter and ian rapaport both reported out of the absolute blue hey deshaun
01:30watson's going to be on the roster next year he's got a chance to start like what like deshaun watson's
01:35not even playing this season where is this coming from and since then there have been stories dropped
01:40about how deshaun watson looks great in practice and how they want to give him another chance and how
01:45munkin really likes him and i don't get why there's a media blitz to to get everyone acclimated
01:50to the idea that deshaun watson's going to start again it's over it's done he has not been a good
01:55quarterback in like five years not even a average quarterback he's been absolutely probably the
02:00worst quarterback in the nfl since he decided to sit out a season with the houston texans to try to
02:05force a trade what's the point of all this to me it's embarrassing it's embarrassing to the franchise
02:09if i was a browns fan browns fans are great they deserve better than this if i was a browns
02:13fan i'd be mad
02:14but why why are we doing this why why do we need to suffer through you guys trying to convince
02:19us
02:19that deshaun watson's a good idea in the year 2026 again one of the more embarrassing things i've ever
02:24seen in my 25 years covering this league so we agree by the way uh i don't want to make
02:28it seem
02:29like oh we're we're against you and we agree 100 uh we can't figure it out either but why is
02:33it then
02:34uh that the browns seem actually serious about this i i don't think this is just some big act that
02:39they're doing they're splitting up first team reps like they why are they serious about this
02:43i have no idea i really truly don't know i i thought about that like why like you know you
02:49think about like the the knee-jerk stuff of like oh they just want to pump up his trade value
02:53to
02:54nobody's trading for deshaun watson i don't know i don't even think the the you know the
03:01the the toronto argonauts are trading for deshaun watson at this point right like so that's not it
03:06i can't imagine they really think that this is going to work out and even if it does
03:10quote unquote work out work out to what like work out to where he wins just enough games to
03:16knock you out of a chance to draft a real quarterback next year like i don't get that part of
03:21it now
03:21this is a hell i'll tell you this if this is a uh a plan to tank out in the
03:27open and to lose as
03:28many games as possible to get down to more arch manning okay all right i'm on board then then
03:33it's smart then and that that might be the one thing deshaun watson could do really really well in
03:372026 is is make his team as bad as possible other than that i can't come up with one logical
03:42reason why they would do this again this is it's not like i think you're giving a chance to
03:48a really really popular player who you just want to see wow this would be a great story this would
03:53be awesome if he can beat the odds nick chubb you know a guy like that this ain't that this
03:58is
03:59you're you're you're doing this for somebody who i don't think brown i don't know you guys could
04:04tell me maybe browns fans sold defend the guy i love the guy i would hope not no no it
04:09doesn't
04:09happen yeah no right i thank you for that i just can't so i can't see any logical point to
04:14this i
04:14can't i other than it's the jimmy haslin browns that's it but it's just that nothing makes sense
04:19with them so frank we're in a weird spot here because i concur pretty much across the board with
04:24you about deshaun i i like uh chador's playmaking i'm intrigued to see with a full off season and
04:30maybe a coach that takes him seriously uh if there's uh you know good starting quarterback
04:35or at least an interesting starting quarterback there and when we go outside the quarterback spot
04:41i like monk in a lot and i love the rest of this roster it's not flawless but there's so
04:47much promise
04:47here yeah i'm just how do we kind of how do we buoy maybe or bowie maybe the the worst
04:53uh quarterback
04:54room in the nfl against a really nice young roster that's the problem and that's why you know again i
05:02go back to my previews but it seemed like there was about six teams that the whole focus of the
05:07preview was well this season's gonna stink but if they hit it in the 2027 draft then then it's all
05:13it's all gonna be worth it and they can start turning things around i mean the brown might be at
05:17the front of that list the problem for the browns is they might be too good to get a top
05:23three pick
05:24right like they really do have a lot of promise their rookie rookie class last year was awesome
05:29like they could not have done better including travis hunter trade and they really did well and
05:34you could see like there's a nucleus here and it really means nothing if they can't figure out the
05:39quarterback situation what if again what if you know this team with jared verse and and all that
05:44they got from the rams and that trade and all that what if they're just good enough to win
05:49seven games right like you just feel like that almost be a gut punch like okay what do we do
05:55now
05:55and so i think to be honest i think you're gonna see a lot of tanking in the nfl this
06:02year i think
06:02you're gonna see a lot of shenanigans like the raiders pulled last year where oops sorry this guy's
06:06got to go on ir because of a surgery like can't wait like the nba did this year because the
06:12stakes are
06:13so high for the 2027 draft that it's you need to get a quarterback and i fear for the browns
06:19and i
06:19do i actually i honestly root for the browns i know i've been kind of trashing for the deshaun thing
06:23i root for the browns they're good fans they're underdogs they they deserve better they deserve a
06:28winner they would appreciate a winner like i root for the lions the same way and in that i hope
06:34that
06:35they're in a position to draft the quarterback they need next year because nothing's going to change
06:39you can have all the harold fannins you want if the quarterback room is still worse than the nfl
06:43you're just not going to go anywhere so how do you get someone like todd munkin to to buy into
06:48that
06:48process of like hey 2027 is where it's at i mean the first time head coach 59 years old he's
06:53been
06:53waiting his whole life for this opportunity that's the hard part i have frank is trying to figure out
06:57how you convince that guy who knows there's one and done head coaches in the nfl for a reason like
07:02he's got to win games what do you do that's hard and i i agree with you there in that
07:07i thought
07:08munkin looking in a vacuum munkin was a very good hire just because i think he's got a lot of
07:14uh you
07:14know the people around the league really respect him he's done it he's done on multiple levels now
07:19he really does know what he's doing and he deserves a chance and then you look at it and you
07:23say is this
07:24right fit like you want a guy who obviously wants to win now nobody wants to nobody wants to take
07:31two and 15 on their record but a guy like jeff halfley might a guy like michael floor might you
07:37know like those kind of guys might be more willing if you really think about the confidence of the
07:43organization hey we know it's going to bottom out the miami dolphins might not win a game this year
07:47like that's how their roster is it's bad but i think that jeff halfley knows i'm not going anywhere
07:51i know that they understand what i'm being put into i don't know if munkin kind of is in that
07:57spot
07:57like you said he's getting his first chance he's at an age where he probably don't get a second chance
08:03he's not going to want to take a season like that so i don't know how he i don't know
08:07how he fits in
08:08all that and again it's i just fear and i think i actually did write this in the browns preview
08:12that
08:13you're they might be just one of those they're not as bad as arizona miami probably the jets
08:19a lot of these teams even somebody like what if the steelers totally bottom out because aaron
08:24rogers looks like brett farve in his last season then you're looking and you're saying the browns
08:29are just good enough that they might knock themselves out of a spot to get a again a dante
08:34more a real true difference maker frank we really do appreciate you man uh great stuff and uh again
08:40we'll catch up with you down the line absolutely i appreciate it frank schwab there yahoo sports
08:45on the wise heart right we make it right call kyle wright hotline
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