00:00And it's been 27 years, 42 different quarterbacks have been used in Cleveland.
00:05We bring Jason Cole in with us here, a Hall of Fame voter.
00:09Jace, will they ever get the quarterback position right in Cleveland?
00:15No, it's going to be the same conversation in 100 years.
00:19We'll be at like 85,000 quarterbacks in 100 years.
00:23Yeah, your boy, Bernie Kosar, was Bernie the last guy who did it right in Cleveland, basically?
00:30Yep, yep.
00:34You know, part of my problem is I don't know that they know exactly what kind of football they're trying
00:38to play,
00:39especially if they're trying to play outdoor football.
00:41You've got to get guys who are tough guys to play outside.
00:47You know, it's sort of like having Roethlisberger or Bradshaw.
00:49You know, you should be adopting the Pittsburgh way of how you play football.
00:53And they don't really do that.
00:55Like, they go from one extreme to another, to another, to another.
01:01So, I don't know what the identity of the Cleveland Browns is.
01:06And that affects the kind of player that you take a quarterback.
01:08And that's how I ultimately look at this.
01:11So, you know, I mean, you think you'd like to have that deal back again when you're getting rid of
01:16a player like Baker Mayfield.
01:18And now you're landing on Deshaun Watson.
01:20I mean, get this.
01:22Get this, Jace.
01:23$230 million, fully guaranteed.
01:26He's only played 19 ballgames in three years so far.
01:30Out of projected 51 starts, he's played 19 games.
01:34Worst contract in NFL history?
01:40Probably.
01:40I mean, it's hard for me to think of anything that comes close to $230 million.
01:44There's a lot of bad moves in NFL history.
01:47The Herschel Walker deal, things like that.
01:50But they don't set a team back quite as bad as this one did.
01:53And, you know, what's really sad about it is, is that it's not only the contract and not only the
02:00off-field stuff,
02:02but how long ago was it that people thought Deshaun Watson was something truly special when he was coming out
02:07of college
02:07as a two-time national championship quarterback, right?
02:12Like, a guy who could do some amazing things on the field and came in and played really well in
02:16Houston early in his career,
02:18looked like he was on the right path.
02:20I mean, like, he's gotten so drastically down in his career that I think we're forgetting, like, how great he
02:31really was at certain moments in his career.
02:33It's truly sad to have your legacy like that.
02:36And I was, I ran into one of his cousins this week, and we were talking about it.
02:40And he's like, oh, well, at least he got paid.
02:42And it's like, yeah, it's one thing to get paid.
02:45And I know that's important.
02:48But there is legacy.
02:50And legacy means something.
02:52And this kid had an amazing legacy.
02:55He was an amazing story.
02:57And he let it all go.
02:59And that's, I find it sad when guys go that far.
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