00:00But what most people don't realize is the media has nothing to do with anything
00:03that happens on a football field.
00:05And the fact that guys pay any attention to it or use the media as leverage
00:12to motivate themselves.
00:13Leverage, scapegoat, sounding board, whatever, okay, fine.
00:19Deshaun just said, media expects me to go out.
00:22He said that's a media thing.
00:23I'm paraphrasing.
00:25The media expects me to go out and throw for 400 yards and five touchdowns every game.
00:31And I thought, no, not really.
00:34I don't.
00:35How about media?
00:36How about just fans?
00:37Do fans expect that?
00:38No.
00:39You know what?
00:40And we were just talking about it at the break.
00:42How about if you throw for something on a regular basis that starts with the number two?
00:48How about we have a stat line that doesn't have an interception in it?
00:51How does that sound?
00:51That would be fine.
00:53The bar is not very high.
00:55It's really not.
00:59If Deshaun threw for half of what he just said the media expects him to do, 200 yards
01:05and two and a half touchdowns a game, or yeah, five touchdowns a game.
01:10If that's what he averaged, oh my goodness, congratulations.
01:15That would be phenomenal.
01:17If he needs that, okay, fine.
01:21But sorry, the media doesn't expect him to throw for 400 yards and five touchdowns.
01:26Would be fun to see, but I don't expect that.
01:31Do you expect that?
01:31No.
01:32He's got...
01:32Was that his 20th game or was that his 19th game?
01:34I'm trying to remember.
01:35That was his 20th game.
01:37He was 9 and 10 as a start.
01:38He's got 13 interceptions in 20 games.
01:40How is that?
01:41Is that good?
01:42Well, it's not awful.
01:44There are guys who are worse.
01:46True.
01:48It's just, look, this guy's in a no-win situation here, and he put himself there, along with
01:57injuries.
01:59He came here because he took the money.
02:03That's fine.
02:04That comes with a ton of expectations.
02:07That's fine.
02:08You gave up a ton of draft capital to get him.
02:11That's fine.
02:12It just hasn't worked.
02:16And if he wants to say, well, the media is expecting this, well, hell yeah, everybody's
02:22expecting you to play well because you were the highest paid player in the game and you
02:25gave up three firsts and everything else to get you.
02:28Of course there are expectations.
02:31Now, it's not 400 yards and five touchdowns.
02:34But to think that there are not expectations after a franchise wrongly mortgaged its future
02:40for you is just being naive and not taking responsibility.
02:47He put himself in a bad spot before he ever got here.
02:51And then, unfortunately, shoulder injury, two Achilles tears.
02:56That's unfortunate.
02:58But in between all that, Andy, he didn't play real well.
03:01So, you know, take some responsibility for your own play.
03:06Seriously.
03:07You haven't played in two years.
03:08I get that.
03:09I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that.
03:12Andy, you said you'd give him the benefit of the doubt on that.
03:15Football-wise, yeah.
03:16Just play.
03:16Take some responsibility, man.
03:18We're just asking for competent quarterback play.
03:20That's all you need.
03:21We're asking to have a football team that can score more than 20 points a game.
03:27It's not asking too much out of a guy you more than used to future.
03:2922 because your odds are a lot better.
03:31But, you know, this team that averages 16 points a game over the last couple years,
03:37now they average 10 this season.
03:40Did you just say they average 10 points a game?
03:43This season, yeah.
03:46We're down 6.4, right?
03:49Up the last year's mark.
03:50Seriously, Andy.
03:52At some point.
03:53And that's with no defensive help, too.
03:55Don't you have to be accountable for yourself?
03:57Yes.
03:58I just think at some point, I just, I don't want to use this word because I just, I,
04:04part of me is like, okay, you're a quarterback.
04:06You got to go out and play on Sunday.
04:08And so you better have a really, really, really short memory.
04:12Right?
04:12Well, yeah.
04:13As I was listening to him today, I'm like, he's either, you know,
04:17trying to have a short memory or he's kind of delusional on what the reality is
04:22of what's going on with the Browns and where he is and, you know,
04:26he's breaking it down and maybe psychologically the coaches are in it,
04:30you know, saying, well, you can look at it this way and that pass wasn't bad
04:34and, you know, that looked good and, man, let's just, let's harp on the good things.
04:38Let's talk about that great touchdown pass where you were, you know,
04:4116 miles off the line and, you know, it's just.
04:44Andy.
04:45I kept, I was having, I was having thoughts of Deshaun.
04:51I said this the day of the break.
04:52I'm like, could you imagine Deshaun Watson up against Jabril Preppers
04:58and what that would look like on the, like how far apart would those two be
05:01on the field?
05:02When Jabril was playing.
05:03When Jabril was playing.
05:04A deep center field.
05:05Yeah.
05:05When he was playing at, I'm trying to think, the perinuclear plant.
05:12When the ball was heading east, he was at Cedar Point, the other side.
05:17And I don't know if that was on him or if that was scheme.
05:20And I'm just like, how much farther back is Deshaun going to go?
05:23It had to be scheme.
05:24Look, I mean, they scored a touchdown.
05:25You can go back 25 yards if he wants to.
05:27You score a touchdown.
05:28You score, who cares?
05:29But, man, you're like, you're in the shotgun and now you're seven to nine steps
05:34back off of that?
05:35Seriously.
05:36He did make the offensive line look really good.
05:38From where Deshaun dropped back out of the shotgun, you could gain 14 yards
05:43and not get back to the line of scrimmage.
05:45Yes.
05:46From where he throws the ball.
05:48Now, is that by design?
05:49Is that his?
05:50I don't know where that is.
05:51I don't know.
05:52I don't know.
05:53176 days to go, gentlemen.
05:55176 days to go.
05:56Let me throw this out.
05:58Is that until the end of the contract or is that draft?
05:59That's until they can cut him with a June 1 guarantee.
06:04176 days.
06:05Though we don't hear accountability from Deshaun very often.
06:09He did say that after the game, he did make some comments about needing to play better.
06:17But I also don't want my starting quarterback walking around and speaking to the media and
06:23saying, yeah, I'm not very good.
06:27This isn't working.
06:28No, I don't want him to say that either.
06:30I don't want to hear that.
06:31We don't need that.
06:31No, but I mean, clearly you got to be somewhat accountable.
06:36Do you not?
06:38Yeah.
06:39He's not.
06:40Do you think he's accountable?
06:41No.
06:41Do you think he's acting like he's accountable?
06:42No, I don't.
06:45And maybe it would help him.
06:46I don't know.
06:47I don't know.
06:49All I know is what you do at a press conference really doesn't affect what you do on the football
06:53field.
06:53And if what you do on the football field is better, then you don't have to worry about
06:56press conferences.
06:57Good point.
06:58Todd's first two games as an NFL head coach goes south as bad as the Jacksonville game
07:03did.
07:03Oh, good Lord.
07:05That would just be, that would be awful.
07:07I would feel terrible.
07:08I don't think we can do 17 of these, right?
07:10He wouldn't survive 17 of these, right?
07:13Well, no.
07:14Pre-staff penalties have to stop, right?
07:16You can't have 11 penalties in a game.
07:18Let's talk about what the head coach should be able to control.
07:22In week eight.
07:23And by the way, they probably should have had 12, but he was smart enough to call timeout
07:27on the one delay game call.
07:28At least they were able to get, avoid one.
07:31One.
07:34You agree.
07:35I just want them to be competitive, Jeff.
07:37I'm not asking for a whole lot.
07:39Want them to look like a football team.
07:41Yes.
07:41Yeah.
07:42They were not competitive against Jacksonville, Andy.
07:45God knows how.
07:46How about this?
07:47Because if Ben Johnson were the head coach of the Jaguars and they had that going, he
07:52wouldn't have called off the dogs like Liam Cohen did.
07:54No, I agree.
07:55I agree.
07:57That was very sportsman-like of Liam Cohen.
08:01I thought so, too.
08:02I mean, they totally called off the dogs.
08:04Ben Johnson would have run it up.
08:05And he has every right to.
08:07You know, you're in the National Football League.
08:09You want to run it up, you run it up.
08:10Right?
08:11That's what I said.
08:13Yeah.
08:13Todd Munkin's press conference coming up momentarily.
08:15I just, there were, there was things, he had to just think, I can't believe this is happening.
08:22He had to.
08:23He's not going to tell us that, but he had to think that.
08:27I get my big chance and this is what we were, oh my God.
08:31He did say something about Deshaun that I, that I thought, well, that's on you, sir.
08:37When he said, well, he's only been getting all of the reps for any two weeks or whatever
08:43he said.
08:44I thought, yeah, that's because it took you forever to name a starting quarterback.
08:47Right.
08:48If, if the, you know, if the competition, the alleged competition, whatever it was, if
08:54it looked even, looked even, looked even, well, then somebody was not going to suddenly
09:01emerge and beat somebody else out.
09:03You should have picked somebody at the start of, start of the preseason.
09:07Giving the offense a chance to at least get on the same page and polish up the mediocrity
09:12that's there.
09:14There's some, there's some young talent on the team that we're all intrigued by.
09:18I am.
09:19Man, I love the young wide receivers.
09:22That's great.
09:23Me, loving wide receivers.
09:25How about that, Jeff?
09:25That's great.
09:26I've never heard you once say this team was.
09:27I like Quinshawn, poor Dylan Sampson on the IR.
09:30He's out at least four games.
09:31Yeah.
09:31But I, I do think it was a mistake to not pick a starting quarterback.
09:36You should have had one by the first preseason game.
09:40Ideally could have had one the day training camp opened.
09:43You saw everybody in the off season.
09:45Pick one, go, because you, you're going to have major challenges on this offense.
09:50And, and you can't now say that, well, he's only had the first team reps for so, so long.
09:56That just, that one didn't sit well with me.
09:59I thought, Todd, that was on you.
10:03Could have been on Andrew Barry because you didn't give Todd anybody to choose from.
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