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In the back row. Yeah, I'll be sorry you did not get that job. Although I could certainly argue. That you should have. Although nobody expected it.
I think the guy that we all expected to get that job got that job doesn't mean they got the right choice. But I think that if you really think about it, And you read the tea leaves and you see the way the thing had been shaking out. Was there any doubt that he was going to get that job? I will get there momentarily. In terms of the XDR, who knows who the hell is in there?
Still no camera. They closed the door. I don't really know. Food comes for them before the show. They're like prisoners.
I just shove it under the door. Or they've got this little cutout that I push it through. Anyway, the team is intact. Although the team that came in at the end of last week did a great job. All right, with all of that in mind, let's start the week off.
Let me start off by shouting out to my good friends in Seatown. Hey, Cleveland. This is for you! This is for you! Cleveland might be having the most Cleveland 48 hours ever.
The Browns have never browns so hard. Because in the least surprising development ever, Deshaun Watson has been named the starting QB for week one. Just two days after he played like total ass. Yet again And then set the entire fan base on fire at the post game podium. Apparently, that was exactly what the Browns needed to see before they named him their starting quarterback, because they turned around and they rewarded the creep today.
So, congrats to the Creep. You won the lamest and least competitive and least legitimate quarterback competition ever. Did Watson play well at any point in the preseason? Not really. Did he handle himself well off the field?
Definitely not. But they just handed him the job anyway? because regardless of his play on the field or his demeanor off the field, the fact is, dude is still playing on that guaranteed two hundred thirty million dollar deal. And turns out, that was really the only criteria that mattered in this so called quarterback competition. Because there really is no other explanation as to why you would give him this job over Shador Sanders.
Now, as you all know. I'm not exactly a Shador honk. I think the dude is anything but legendary. And I think he's got serious flaws to his game.
However, Shador is not a cereal creep. A washed creep, With a terrible attitude. What he is, is a 24-year-old that might have some upside. The Browns have already used the pick on him. They've already spent the time developing him.
So you may as well find out what the hell you have. Before you draft another quarterback next year, because you will.
Meanwhile, there's basically no argument for Watson. He's washed. He's awful pretty much every time he steps on the field. And for some unimaginable reason, thinks that he is owed something. by the people of Cleveland.
even though he's given them absolutely nothing at all. It makes no sense. It makes no sense to go to the podium after a five for twelve performance with an interception and then lecture the entire fan base about being too negative. But that's exactly what the creep did after his latest dud performance. Check this guy's act after the game on Saturday night.
Listen, it's never a good idea to light your own fan base on fire in any situation. That's never a fight you're going to win. Not even if you're a really good player. But if you're horrendous. And you're the most overpaid player in NFL history, and you have a sordid past.
And you haven't done a damn thing for the franchise, they guaranteed you more than a quarter of a bill. Then it's like the worst idea ever. This tip to a step to a microphone. And then do this. Man, I didn't have no reaction.
I think The biggest thing is, um I don't I think you guys know too, and I think the whole world knows it has nothing to do about the performance. It's a little bit personal than that, so. I think that's uh It's a disrespectful thing.
So, yeah, I mean, I'm going to keep whatever I feel with me and my family internally on how I feel about that. Um and yeah, just move on. Don't you think The Sean that that winning and and playing better would eliminate some of that booing. Um Last time I played on this field, I took my Achilles. And that same fan base, they cheered when I got hurt.
So Mm-hmm. Does that does that have to do with What does that have to do with anything about performance? when a person get hurt, especially for your own city, And they cheer. Does any of that make you regret coming here? No, I don't regret anything of my life.
You know, I I think the Lord put me through situations for a reason.
So I don't I don't regret anything at all. You don't regret anything in your life. You don't regret anything at all. How many things were wrong with that explanation? How many things were wrong with that answer?
Not entitled at all. Not out of touch at all. Not oblivious at all. or maybe the most oblivious athlete I've ever heard in my life. But good to know that you don't regret anything in your life, Creep.
Although you should. You should regret plenty of things in your life. Starting with that answer. Let me help you out here. Because you only have half of that right.
Yes, you are right when you say it's personal with Browns fans. But you're wrong when you say that it's not performance related, because it is, it's both. Because you suck as a person. And is a football player. Which is why Browns fan hates you on both a personal and a performance level.
And they're not wrong. What is there to like, bro? My dude, what have you ever done for a Browns fan except deposit checks from the Browns? They guaranteed, oh, and throw INTs, that too. They guaranteed you over a quarter of a bill and And they spent draft capital to get you to Cleveland.
And what do they have to show for it? Nothing. A handful of crappy starts. And an exploded Achilles that you say the fans cheered for.
Now, by the way, I want to be clear about this. I don't condone fans cheering injuries. I don't, ever. And I sure as hell What if Never condone the Browns. Cheering for that.
Even as badly as you've played and as bad a guy as you are, I don't do that. That's just wrong. But I'll tell you what I would have condoned. I would have condoned the Browns ending this nightmare not long after that Achilles exploded. Never mind that that guy should have never been on the team in the first place.
But that right then would have been the right time to end that nightmare. Maybe not when he was right on the field. You could let him get back to the locker room. But end it then and there. But they didn't.
Question for Brown's management. If the guy was that horrible a person and a player before exploding his Achilles, how the hell was he going to come out of it any better as either a player or a person? Answer, he wasn't. That's why you should have ended that whole debacle right then and there. Again, to be clear, this dude should have never been on that team in the first place.
And then after he blew out that Achilles, he should have never been brought back into the fold. And yet here the bleep we are. And somehow, this weirdo is upset and he wants credit for rehabbing his Achilles. Like, I busted my ass, and they're out here booing me. As if he wasn't getting paid handsomely on the largest guarantee in NFL history.
To rehab the injury. Yet, somehow, this dude thinks that everything was gonna be just fine with the fans when he came back because he. He busted his ass to rehab his Achilles. Like, I did the work. You're welcome.
No, come. This is what I mean when I say this is one of the most oblivious athletes I've ever seen in my life. Of course, you rehab the injury. This is what you do as a paid athlete. You rehab injuries and you come back.
Jimmy Haslam really should have listened to himself when he actually said that one smart thing last March, and I quote. We took a big swing and miss. What does Sean? We thought we had the quarterback. We didn't.
and we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him.
So we've got to dig ourselves out of that hole. The trade was an entire organization decision, and it ends with Dee and I, so hold us accountable. All right. So, you knew you made a big mistake. Why didn't you fix it then and there?
You You owned it. You said it. And then you did nothing. Here we are, eighteen months later, and nothing has changed. Like this dude says the one smart thing that he says and then completely contradicts it and has his team in a way worse spot nearly 18 months later.
It's like the literal definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and over and then expecting different results. It's been so obvious for so long that this guy was more than a swing and a miss. A swing and a miss. Swing and a miss is like 0-1.
A swing and a miss. That dude is a walking, living example of a golden sombrero. Not a swing and a miss. Four punch outs. You know, he's still the Browns QB1?
And Todd Munkin also said this isn't a week-to-week thing, that he is the quarterback. And I gotta say, man, this is where you lose me, the monkin. I got a lot of kick out of you. I got a huge kick out of you, the monkin, up until now. It was fun while it lasted.
Shut your pile up. There were a lot of fun lunches with you, monkin. Lunch with a monkin. Lunch with a monkin. There's a fun lunch.
There's a fun lunch. There's a fun lunch. What are you having for lunch, monkin? What are you having for lunch? Anyway.
What kind of decision is this? All right, granted, was it actually the Moncins' decision? Who knows? But you know what? It sure seems like it was a decision that was made long before.
And that this whole quarterback competition, Alvin, enlightened me. You were there. This whole quarterback competition seems like a big charade. Like Watson shouldn't even be on the team right now, let alone QB1. You waited all these years.
To get head coaching gig so you can name this creep your starting quarterback? And by the way, how little do they think of Shador? Seriously, I know the Shador people are beside themselves right now with their social media hysterics and their tinfoil conspiracies, but I do have to ask, How little do they think of this guy, or how horrendous was he in camp? Not that bad. And by the way, looking at the two of these guys in that battle, I don't know that Shidora didn't win.
It was really close. Or he won, or he barely lost. But it just seemed like they had already made up their mind, didn't they? I mean, are we to believe That Shador is that insufferable behind closed doors that Muncin would rather work with the entitled, oblivious, washed weirdo? Who can't even move the ball in preseason against backups?
And then it's incredulous when the fans boo him and they don't understand why? I can't stress this enough. Watson has not looked good in the preseason. He has not outperformed anybody. Saturday, he went five for twelve against Scrubbs with a pick.
How do you justify this decision with this play on the field? Android's attitude off the field. And yet he's your guy?
Sorry, Dylan Doloro. You must be really horrible. No offense, bro. Thank you. Inla, you walk.
You're welcome. Unless, again, this was not the Moncin's call and somebody above him told him to do it, in which case, why would you even take that job? Why would you take that job? I know you've waited your whole life for that job, but why would you take that job if you had absolutely no say in who your quarterback was going to be, especially if that was your quarterback? Bad quarterback.
Bad guy. Bad organization. And again, forget QB competition. This dude shouldn't even be on that team at all right now. The owner knew this was a failed experiment a year and a half ago.
The rest of us knew long before that. Most of us knew from day one that this was one of the single worst ideas in NFL history. And day one Of this miserable idea and experiment was now four years ago. And nothing has changed? Four years ago, and a shredded Achilles, and nothing has changed?
So, believe me, I understand why Browns fan is frustrated. They should be. I am frustrated for Browns fan. At this point, Browns fan probably wouldn't even care if Jimmy Haslam went Art Model and moved this team under the cover of Darkness. Hill Browns fan would probably cheer for that as loud as they cheered for Deshaun's severed Achilles.
Because having no team It's got to be better than having a team quarterbacked by this washed, entitled, oblivious creep. Creep. And the creep Tried to apologize for lighting the fan base on fire after the fact. Everyone ready? Good.
Uh first off, I want to address the the comments from uh Saturday after the game. Um you know I think just You know, human nature, just myself being very emotional. Spending a lot of time these last. Two years to you know, get back and you know, spend time in this facility in the city. I meet a lot of different people in the community.
you know, I I thought I was gonna get uh you know a little different uh response. But uh you know, I think, you know, my emotions got the best of me. And um, you know, I wasn't my comments wasn't attending to Go at any of the fans around in the city. Yes, they were. There's been a lot of great support supporting me.
And I know the frustration this organization have put. you know, a lot of investment and coming, you know, to get me back in the And 22. And things haven't been going the right direction that we thought it was. You know, a lot of injuries, a lot of time off, and no accountability. No ownership on your part at all, ever.
Again, just. You know, I understand the frustration. I understand everything that you can do. No, you don't. Alvin, go ahead.
You know, miscreant. No. That word salad made nothing better. Miss me with all that creep. You're not sorry you said it.
You're not sorry you said it. You're sorry you're in this position. And by the way, I've never in my life Seeing an athlete demand so much credit for rehabbing an injury. That you did on company time that you were paid for. Like, I thought he said it.
I thought they'd be so happy to see me when I came back after all that work I did. Like you're the only one who ever tore an Achilles. You're paid a quarter of a bill. To do your job. Part of your job is to rehab an injury when you get hurt.
It's bad enough they pay you that much when you're actually playing. But you weren't actually playing. Your own coach said it. Your own coach said it. If you don't want them to boo, play better.
Browns fans, I have never felt so badly for you over the years. I mean, I've always felt badly for you over the years, but never this badly. I've never felt worse for you than I do right now because you deserve so much better. It's such a great fan base. I mean, bad enough that you lost your franchise for as long as you did, and then it came back like this?
You deserve a hell of a lot more. Than that crap Sando that they're feeding you and charging you 100 bucks for. Just jamming it down your throat. Where about Not the Philly crap, Sando. Not the Philly crap, Sando.
This dude's acting like. I I thought they'd be so happy to see me. I won them a Super Bowl. N no you didn't. You didn't win them anything.
You blew your Achilles up. And then you rehabbed it. And then you came back. And then you went five for twelve with an INT, and then you lit them on fire.
Okay. Yeah. You know, I'm emotional. You know, the other thing about that was. He was asked before that game, Are you concerned about the reaction?
Are you concerned about the potential reaction, the negative reaction? You know what he said? I don't care. I don't care. He said it, I don't care.
And then you cared so much you had a whole meltdown. And then you say, you know, I was just emotional. You know me, I wear it on my sleeve. Which one is it, dude? You don't care.
or you're emotional. I don't care. Well, you know me, I'm really emotional. You don't seem that emotional. You don't seem that emotional, and you seem like you don't you're not sorry for anything.
You also said, I don't have any regrets. I don't regret it. You don't regret anything in your life. How about those 20. Masseuse artists that said that That accused you of sexual misconduct and/or sexual assault.
You don't regret that? This dude's impossible to get behind. And then Shador Nation, I'm actually going to side with you. Like, how little do they think of your guy that they're starting him? And then the monkin.
Is this what you signed up for, dude? Is that how you got that job? Did you say I can make this guy? I absolutely can turn this guy around. I can get with this guy.
I want to coach this guy. For a ball. Or did you actually think you had a say in who was starting? I just find it hard to believe. That this guy would go five for twelve and then melt down on the fan base.
And not only is he still on the team. which I can't believe. But they're starting him. He just lit the entire fan base on fire. And that's okay?
See, one last thing, and I know I've really gotten long on this, but the fact. That the Monkins said prior to announcing that he was the quarterback. The monk had made a point of saying. what he did at that press conference will have no bearing On who we pick, Which leads me to believe they had already made up their mind who they picked. If they said that had no bearing, because how could that have no bearing?
Your guy just lit the fan base on fire, but that has no bearing? Damn, Browns fan, get up in here. What are you waiting for? One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. I'm here.
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But I'd say we dodged a bullet. Frisco fan?
Well, not really Frisco fan, Frisco owner. Jed York, holy crap. You're just lucky I'm doing it in Frisco fan voice, York. Dude Quick wash yin. What were you doing prowling around a mobile home park looking for a pro that you got off of a well known prostitution website for a buck forty?
What were you doing there? Bro, this is not where I live. This is not what I do, this is not where I go, and yes, I've always said it myself, it is undefeated. But, my dude, you own an NFL franchise. There's gotta be a better and more discreet way to prowl for it Than to get ensnarred.
In a web of human trafficking at a mobile home park in Ohio. Bobcraft sneaking out the back door of the orchids of Asia. Can't believe how stupid you are. Holy crap, Niner fan, what is going on with your franchise? All right, now and now I'm done.
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Look who's in first. The guy that was sitting in Alvin's chair on Friday. And Rich Fry underscore producer. Deshaun Gonna get a no Ra Gretz tattoo? Regret spelled R-A-G-R-E-T-S.
Not original. He didn't make that up, but. Good point. He's got no regrets. Bro, you're a walking regret.
What do you mean you have no regrets? You could tell just how jacked you are mentally and emotionally right now. What do you mean you have no regrets? You're nothing but regrets. And if you're not I know you're pushing them way down.
Way down. But they're coming to the surface when you're on the field. We can see the doubt in the way you play. What do you mean you have no regrets? Wait.
Rich Fry again? Pack to back? Bro, you know I'm not paying you for this. Last week, sure. Deshaun Watson should get help for some of that stress from being booed.
Perhaps a massage would relieve him. Fry. Wow, my man took to the show pretty quickly. I think that he had a lot going on sitting in Alvin's chair, which is not an easy chair to sit in. And having to run the show.
But all of a sudden, now that he's free and clear of that responsibility, now he's a content machine. He was probably looking over there, like, yo, man, that chat looks pretty fun over there. But I got to listen to the host. He might call for something. Rusty and Cleveland, good.
In market, on topic, in the chat. Exactly. Jim Rome. We weren't cheering the Deshaun Watson injury per se. It just appeared we were going to be able to move on from that nightmare.
War Lake Erie.
Alright, so I was not there that day. I'm well aware of that day. Here's my reaction to that. Number one, it wasn't everybody. Sharing the injury.
Let's be very clear about that. It was not everybody. Number two, Rusty. I think some of those who were cheering the injury. were of your opinion.
Good. We can finally move on. They'll cut him. That guy's not going to be on the field again anytime soon.
However, number three Frankly, I think some of you were cheering the injury. I think some of you were. And I'm just saying This is a pretty deplorable guy. And if you think that's harsh. then you'd at least agree.
It's not a really likable guy. And I think that's putting it really mild mildly. I just have always had an issue. With fans, and buying a ticket does give you a license to boo. and to cheer, And to talk junk.
But there is a line. There's a line that Even buying that ticket does not give you license to cross. There are certain things you cannot do as a fan. Like, you can't throw things on the field. You can't go on the field.
And my feeling is you should never cheer somebody who you know is hurt. And even you don't know how badly they are hurt. I'll never forget Dan Pastorini, and I talked about this once. Remember Dan Pastorini? I'll never forget when I asked him What it felt like and what it was like to have Raider fan booing him as Raider quarterback as he lay on the field with a broken leg.
And I asked him that in an interview setting. And he he almost started to cry. Like he was so deeply wounded by that. And then I remember asking, famously asking Michael Irvin. What it was like when he lay motionless on the turf.
In Philly. And for all we knew, Mike was paralyzed. Mike was laying motionless with a neck injury. And I said, Mike, what was that like? And he laughed.
Like, listen to his response. He took no offense to it. Like, he understood it. As you lay motionless on the turf in Philadelphia, we don't know the extent of your injury at the end of your career. You're not moving.
You might not get up. Philadelphia fans are cheering. But despite that, Mike, you have never taken offense to that. You're not angry. Why?
I can't. But you know what, Rome? I love that. Because I love the game. I love cities that are so crazy about their football teams.
I played in one of them. I played in one of them. And I understood Philly. I understood it when I laid down there. And I was a little concerned with my conditions.
And I remember saying, you can't blame them. I've been killing them for 10 years. You know what I'm saying? I understand. As I'm being rolled off, and all I can see is the sky.
And I'm thinking, man, I may never walk again. And these guys are booing. And I couldn't help but say, you know, you can't blame them. I would be glad I'm leaving the field too. They had to get rid of me.
They were like, get this brother. And I say brother now because, but I use the other word: get this brother off the field. Please, we're glad he's gone. Only Michael Irvin. Only Michael Irvin.
He just said it. Is there rolling me off the field? and I'm staring up into the sky, and I have no idea whether or not I'm going to walk ever again. I understood. I understood why they were cheering because I had been killing them for 10 years.
He he's the anomaly.
So I I have never ever Even Even the creep. I don't condone cheering. for an injured athlete. But Who's been through more than Browns fans? Honestly.
I'm still not saying it's okay. But That one fan that said, Rome, we weren't cheering him being hurt, we were cheering the nightmare being over. All right. We can debate that distinction, except the nightmare is not over. 18 months later, you're still living that nightmare.
And how is it better now than it was then? Yeah. Also, in market, on topic. I mean, get up in here, Browns fan. I know how much you care.
I know what you've been through. Like, I don't really know what you've been through because you'd have to grow up in it generationally to know what you've been through. But. I've been watching you for a long, long time. And you've been great for this show for a long, long time.
I have your back. Pauly J in Ohio quote. Ohio against the world. Creep is Cleveland's QB One. Jed York slithers into an Ohio mobile park home?
Former Buckeye Mike Vrabel? And of course, Purban Liar. On behalf of Ohio, I apologize to the world. Wow.
Now that's a hell of a way of looking at it. That is great. It's not just the creep. York is one of them. Vrabel is one of them.
Pervin Lyre is one of them. Amazing. Joe 569-84 in the chat. Hey, Rome, I think the Browns got tremendous value. with the Deshaun Watson signing.
Signed Anthony Rendone. Yeah, I mean, fair, except at least Rendon never assaulted. Any masseuse or twenty or more of them. In terms of contracts, in and of themselves, it's not a bad comp. Especially since Ren Doen's on record as saying, man, I hate baseball.
I never even liked it. Stucked on radio. The only job that's easier than being a Browns quarterback is whatever Fabian does for a living. Yeah. We did make that pretty clear last week.
And you see LA Dodger Dogs in. Not even sure Deshaun Watson can carry a clipboard at this point, let alone an NFL offense. I didn't go as far as to say he does not belong in the NFL. I definitely said he does not belong on that team. After what he did on the field and off the field.
Yeah, the way he played, And then, after what he did to the fan base. Like, I can't believe that the Monkin. Actually, I can. I said it myself. I know why he did it.
On the one hand, I can't believe that the monkin Was so quick to say, that is not going to impact our decision as to who starts. How could it not impact the decision? He lit the fan base on fire. How does that not impact the decision? The fact that he was so quick to say that it would not impact the decision leads me to believe the decision had already been made.
So then here's my question. When did they make that decision? When? At the end of last season, At the beginning of summer As he lay with a shredded Achilles, when the ink dried on the contract, when did they make that decision? Because it sure doesn't seem like they made that decision based on the competition.
Because the competition was pretty damn close. And then in the very end, Shidor completely outplayed him on Saturday. Deshaun played like hell. and then he lit the fan base on fire. But he won?
How? Who made that decision? When did they make that decision? And Brown's fan, how do you feel about that decision? These are all my questions.
Alright, so hit me up. I'm not hard to find. I'm telling Frisco fan, I'm telling you, I cannot believe that Jed York didn't make the open. Frankly, Part of me thought that he was going to. I don't know.
I could have led with Jade York. But I really wanted to lead with the football aspect. I made that conscious decision. I wanted to lead with the football aspect, the football story, the sports story on the sports talk show. I wanted to do that, so that's what I did.
But don't act like we're not getting to Yorkie. We're gonna get to him because, dude, the hell are you doing? The hell are you thinking? I'm not saying we're all perfect. I'm just wondering: how does an NFL owner.
end up in a mobile home park. Caught up in a human trafficking prostitution ring for a hundred and forty bucks a trick. Forty. One forty. Again, I'm not rich.
I don't live there. I don't chase prose. But a hundred and forty in a mobile home park? Is there not a more discreet way to go about that, Jed? Great.
Sorry, I've sorry I'll be that's that's twice. You wanna you wanna make it three, Alvi? Break. Break. I'm ready.
Break. Go ahead.
Well c I I'm trying Alvie. The hell do you want me to do? I just said break. Go to break. TJ Ward, top of the hour.
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In the trailer park at 9 a.m. That is incredible.
Okay. Nothing good happens in the trailer market. 9 a.m. is so good. Hmm.
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