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00:11ross tucker odyssey nfl insider what's up buddy what's up guys how are you pretty good how you
00:19doing buddy how are you uh great yeah probably better than you guys are okay that's fair it
00:27just be your life ross so it's yeah yeah yeah you don't lead with that uh what'd you say nothing
00:34it's fine uh all right did you hear the deshaun watson audio that we came back with i did yes
00:40i
00:40was listening yep and so what'd you think about that ross um yeah i don't think much of it i
00:50i don't
00:51think he has really done himself any favors with how he's handled his press conferences
01:00and the media over the last few weeks other than when he more or less issued the apology
01:08i mean ultimately i don't think it matters that much i think what matters is how he performs on
01:14sunday and i think he's going to have to perform really well because i think if you're todd munkin
01:22and the browns i just think it's hard to have him play or start a home game if people are
01:30this
01:31this anti what deshaun's been bringing to the table i think that's i think that'd be a tough look to
01:37have
01:38him start there because you know even if the fans would just be booing him it's still not not good
01:46vibes and not good for the rest of the offense the rest of the team so i think he really
01:52really needs
01:53to perform well on sunday and ultimately that's all that matters but i yeah i don't understand what
02:02he's talking about when he says the media needs him to throw for that many yards or that many
02:08touchdowns i i think the media and the fan base just wants you to play competent football just wants
02:16you to play you know close to winning football as i think what browns fans would take at this point
02:23i don't know you guys tell me no that's exactly right ross we just want competent football no one's
02:28asking him to be mahomes no one's asking him to and that was never the expectation
02:31it's just him trying to dress it up and color it up and make it seem nice after that performance
02:36is it's been exhausting it's not only him munkin's doing the same exact thing
02:42well i haven't heard munkin to that level you know i mean i i heard munkin defend the browns
02:48uh based on what tomlin said and i you know i i respect the way munkin went about that uh
02:57and
02:59i i i will say it was a really really bad performance however i do think the jags are
03:06pretty good and pretty like really good and it's not like it was the only bad week one performance
03:13you know like i mean i'm calling jags broncos on sunday so that's why i've watched both those games
03:21and the broncos as you guys saw monday night they looked not good i mean they got took to the
03:29woodshed as well so it is only one week and what's the flip side what what do you want what
03:37do you want
03:37munkin i mean i guess i'd have to hear more of what munkin said um to really know what you're
03:44talking
03:44about there but he just went too hard with the idea understand the words he used was deshaun watson
03:49was really good and it just it's just one of those things and i i mean he he did i
03:53he did an all right
03:54job of being like there was some bad in there but overall between munkin the perception if you'd only
03:59listen to the press conferences was that deshaun watson was awesome on sunday and it's just it's just
04:04obviously not true yeah well is deshaun acting like he played well because i'm just hearing him say that
04:13he he didn't he's not going to be able to meet the expectations that people have for him which
04:19are not what really anybody has we went through a laundry list of ways that he thought he performed
04:23really well and reminded everybody he only had six incompletions and he also said operationally
04:28despite the fact that there were two should have been three operational uh issues for that led to
04:34false starts yeah wasn't there like a delay game to doubt like inside the red zone that's what it was
04:41this is what nick is referencing it was two delay of game penalties with a third and two inside the
04:45red zone and then he got bailed out because munkin used to time out i don't know what you guys
04:51want
04:51me to say i feel like you guys are like wanting me to try to defend something that i can't
04:56defend
04:57oh no i don't know oh no i think this might be just more just commiserating and us being like
05:01you
05:01see how crazy this is too ross you have to acknowledge how crazy this is because we're we're being told
05:06that
05:06we're overreacting always and we're being told and everyone it feels like everyone uh comes on here
05:11and is like well hey that happens but this isn't normal this isn't none of this is normal and i
05:17i think
05:17we're just kind of a little frustrated is all well you have a right to be very frustrated not just
05:25a
05:25little frustrated i would say very frustrated and i do not think the sean has handled his media
05:33obligations well at all unfortunately but this is where you're at ross i gotta ask you because you
05:41were talking about uh the the home opener which is coming up in two sundays against the panthers that
05:46feels like a very uh winnable game and uh it's felt like a winnable game this entire time although
05:52that's a fine team just not defensively as i'm curious though like what do you think is more
05:57important to deshaun starting week three here is it a big statistical game you know a great
06:03performance from him or a win this week against tampa bay good question i would say either or so like
06:12if they win munkin's not gonna bench him if he plays really well even in a loss i think maybe
06:21they
06:22would give him another week in that regard as well so i mean i don't know i mean it also
06:29could go
06:30really bad in this game and he could get benched at halftime for shador i you know i don't know
06:34i i
06:35did think it was interesting you know hearing the guys on the broadcast sunday talk about whether or
06:42not you know they why they didn't give shador any time at the end of the game it's probably because
06:47munkin didn't want to go there and you know in fairness to deshaun watson he hadn't played a game in
06:53700 days i don't think i would be good at anything if i hadn't done it in 700 days so
06:59um maybe that was a contributing factor as well i do think the jaguars are one of the best teams
07:05in
07:05the nfl so he has a chance he has a chance sunday to have a a bounce back game and
07:11play better but
07:13they need to play better in a lot of areas i mean i i talked to you guys last week
07:18when you were
07:18giving your one loss projections including yours nick i had my doubts about the defense
07:27being as good without schwartz and without miles and again i do think jacksonville's really really
07:36good but i also don't think they if jim schwartz and miles garrett were still there that they would
07:42have given up that many points or that it would have looked that relatively easy yeah i think that
07:48if you talk to browns fans it's a lot of them would tell you that's the most surprising part
07:51out of week one it's not that deshaun struggled we could have seen that coming it's that the defense
07:55ross was as bad as it was yeah it was well first of all i mean i i really trevor
08:04lawrence is playing
08:05with a lot of confidence i think liam cohen is a heck of a coach and you know they they
08:12have some
08:13some pretty good weapons but i was sort of taken aback by how physically dominated the browns got
08:23at times in that game you know with the jaguars just kind of feeling like they were pushing around
08:30at times and then the broken tackles and the whole deal i can't say i was expecting that i don't
08:37think
08:37they'll be as good defensively as they were last year but i also wasn't expecting them to score
08:43whatever it was 30 some points by like the third quarter ross you mentioned you got the the jags
08:50broncos this week uh the broncos one of the teams that took it on the chin week one uh if
08:55we just
08:55look league wide which team with a uh week one whoopsie will rebound or it's most most likely to
09:02rebound this week oh geez i'd have to pull it up and see the you know who everybody's playing
09:11i can tell you the team that probably had the worst whoopsies or the worst loss that's got to be
09:20the
09:20chargers i mean and thankfully for them they play home against the raiders and so they probably have
09:28a pretty good chance to win that one but that's what we all said about the cardinals so i mean
09:34can
09:34you imagine if the chargers started off oh and two with home losses to the arizona cardinals and the
09:40las vegas raiders that that would not be good at all and so uh they need it i mean that
09:48that's a team
09:49i think that had the worst loss because you can say the broncos look bad or the browns look bad
09:54or
09:54whatever but you know the chargers are going to probably win eight nine ten games and so then
10:00we're going to be at this point where they're going to be battling for a playoff spot and you look
10:05back
10:06and say gosh if only they hadn't lost that that week one game at home to the cardinals uh week
10:12one
10:12average 53 combined points per game that's the highest scoring week one sunday ever and six sunday
10:17games reach 60 combined points do you feel like this is something we're going to see week in week out
10:22where it's like offense is back in a major way after defense kind of doing its thing over the
10:26last couple years or is this just a one-off it's a really good question i'm not sure i i
10:33would not
10:34have thought that i really would not have thought that there'd be that many points especially after
10:42wednesday night the opener was 13 10 and then the australia game the rams only scored seven points i just
10:49was not was not expecting it to go that way at all that there were that many points certainly in
10:55my game texans bills i mean i wasn't expecting the texans offense to score that many points and
11:01i guess i wasn't expecting the texans defense to give up that many points either i mean that was
11:06a stunner to me i think a lot of it jonathan has to do with and i know both sides
11:13make adjustments
11:14and both sides have new wrinkles for week one i think it's especially hard for the defenses to
11:24to scout the offenses with them showing nothing in preseason about the new cool wrinkles formations
11:33that they're going to use and i think that that was a major factor ross great stuff as always buddy
11:39and again you killed it week one can't wait to hear you on jags broncos talk to you next week
11:46sounds great later dude later dude ross tucker there on this insider nfl insider call presented by
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