Browns QB Curse Is WORST In Sports (Hour 3)

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All righty Stewart, what we got cooking today? All right, so Nick Chubb rushed for over a thousand yards for four straight years for the Browns, including two years where he had over 1,400 yards. However, the former Georgia star has played just 10 games over the last two seasons, and GM Andrew Berry said, quote, it's increasingly unlikely that Chubb will be back in Cleveland. So Onsides, Offsides, if Chubb is healthy, he could still be a lead NFL back.

I'm going to go offside here. I still think Nick Chubb could be productive. I still think he could help you win some games, but a lead NFL back?

No. I just think there's too much unfortunate wear and tear and too many surgeries on that body. And he's approaching right at the age of 30 years old, where he's 29, and he will turn 30 at some point during next football season, this upcoming football season.

So I don't think that he could still be a lead NFL back as a number one bonafide bell cow back in the NFL. So I will go offside. Offside. I'm reading this Dan Patrick Show interview with Pablo Torre. Pablo Torre when discussing Bill Belichick's relationship with Jordan Hudson. One person said she is the worst person I've ever had to deal with on Earth, and I've dealt with actual psychopaths.

I'm not saying that is everyone. I'm just saying this story is extreme. This is Belichick, Jordan Hudson stuff. I know that it gets sensationalized and she could be a bit crazy.

Don't get me wrong, but it's got to a point where is this really that is this really that big of a deal? Like get me to Saturday and in the fall at Chapel Bill and let's see what Bill Belichick is as a head coach in college football. I've had enough already with this Belichick Jordan Hudson story. And then I read also during the break.

Let me pull this up. It was from a New York Post article about Jordan Hudson that like supposedly she showed up to one of his commercial shoots for underdog and she wanted to be in it. And she was pitching herself to be in this commercial. I guess Bill Belichick was sitting by the pool and she was like wearing a bikini and then they filmed her just to make her think that she was going to be in it. And she wasn't actually in the commercial.

She does seem a bit much. I'll tell you, if there's one guest that could have on right now on radio, it's not Bill, it's not Jordan Hudson. It's Linda Holliday. Linda Holliday is the longtime girlfriend of Bill Belichick now, no longer his girlfriend.

And they had a little split here, obviously, and Jordan Hudson came on to the scene. I would love to know Linda Holliday's whole thoughts about Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson right now. That would be a good spill the tea type of interview about Bill Belichick with with one Linda Holliday.

That's who I was. Sam, let's reach out to Linda Holliday. Let's see if we could get Linda Holliday on the show. She just texted me back, so I'll set it up. How old are you, Sam? Too young for her.

No, how old are you? 45. 45.

I don't think she's got to be count for her just talking about a lady. I think she's like 55, maybe, if not younger. 62. Oh, 62. Yeah, that's a little bit too old for you.

Be a little bit too old. You know, maybe she's cougar, though. You never know. Maybe she's interested in Moist Mike, Big Mike, CBS.

You never know. But that would be more age appropriate than Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson. She's 62, right? And you're 45. Well, you're happily married, too, just to be clear. But geez, 24 and 73, that just makes the hair on my neck just stand up.

It's like, ooh, it's gross. Anyway, next question. All right. Well, speaking of the Belichick and Jordan Hudson drama that won't go away, after the disastrous CBS interview, Poplatory, as you mentioned, reported that Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend has been banned from the UNC campus. However, the school responded back saying, quote, while Jordan Hudson is not an employee at the university, she is welcome to the Carolina athletic facilities.

Jordan will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick's personal brand, end quote. Onside's offside's UNC should have banned Hudson from the athletic facility. No, offside. It's Belichick's girlfriend. Could she be obnoxious? Could she be overpowering?

Yes. But to ban her from the facility, yeah, I would not agree with that. So I would go offsides. Now, after getting backlash for requesting and being denied Lawrence Taylor's number 56 and Phil Simms' number 11, Abdul Carter has decided on a new number. The third overall pick is going with number 51, which is a combination of the two numbers that he wanted. Onside's offside's. It's better for Carter to have his own number than to have LT's or Simms.

This is another one. I don't know which story I give two bleeps about more. Is it Jordan Hudson and Bill Belichick or is it Abdul Carter's jersey number? Like, who gives a rat's ass? All right, so he asked Phil Simms, he asked Lawrence Taylor.

No one, no. Fine with that. And now, oh, 51, he gets to find his own way. He gets to build his own legacy.

Is it better for Carter to have his own new number than have LT's or Simms? I don't think there's a difference. Doesn't matter to me.

So I'm not going to say it's better here. So what? So I'm going offside here.

This is like the biggest non-answer I'm ever going to give you because it's a dumb story. So offside's. All right, so Draymond is at it again after picking up his fifth technical of the postseason, this time for elbowing Nasreed. Draymond is now just two techs away from a one game suspension. Now, after the game, Draymond did what he does best and he played the victim card. Look like the angry black man. I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family. And I'm great at basketball.

I'm great at what I do to put the agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry black man. It's crazy. I'm sick of it. It's ridiculous. Onside's all sides. Draymond is unfairly targeted by refs in the league because of his past actions. No.

How is he unfairly targeted? Should they not have given a technical foul last night? If anything, the referee held Draymond's hand like Draymond was a little child. And the referee was a mom who was like frightened when you're in the supermarket and you're just trying to get your groceries and your child's freaking out and was like, it's OK, let's get you a lollipop. It's going to be all right.

I will get you some some cookies. You'll be good because the referee should have given Draymond Green another technical foul when Draymond was berating the ref. So no, Draymond Green is not unfairly targeted by the rest of the league because he puts himself in the situation. It's the same thing over and over again. Each and every death taxes and come to playoffs, we're acting, we're talking about Draymond Green acting like an a-hole. All right. That's what we do.

It's the same Jackassery year in and year out. Like, what are we doing here? So you asked me, Draymond Green is unfairly targeted by refs in the league because of his past actions. Absolutely not. Offside. Offside. So speaking of NBA punishments, the league has decided to issue a warning to the Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton for his rendition of Sam Cassell's big ball celebration. Now, many were surprised by the lack of a fine since the move has been banned by the NBA and the league has historically fine players who have done the dance. Onside.

Offside. Halliburton should have been fine for the dance. Absolutely not. He did the Sam Cassell big ball celebration.

We're going to find someone, right? Like, is this the NFL, the no fun league now in the NBA? He didn't do anything crazy. He did the big ball celebration. It was hilarious. It was awesome.

It was entertaining. Good for Tyrese Halliburton. That would be a complete and out of disgrace if the NBA fined him for that. And like, seriously, what Adam Silver lets his players get away with, if they would have stepped in and said, hey, Tyrese Halliburton, the children are watching.

What about the children? They can't see the big ball celebration. Come on. That would be ridiculous if they fined him.

So Halliburton should have been fine for the dance. Heck no. Offside. Offside. Have I been offside for everything today? You are five of five, Zach.

I'm in a no mood today. All right, so after just one season of the new 12 team college football playoff format, the committee is considering expanding it even further. Today, Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellinger reported that the power four commissioners met yesterday, and there's growing support for a 16 team format that will give multiple automatic qualifiers to conferences. The Big Ten and SEC would each get four automatic qualifiers each, and then two for the ACC and Big 12, one for a group of six team, and then three at large bids. Onsides, offsides, you like this new 16 team format idea. Offside, you can hit it.

I'll give you the commentary. I don't like the 16 team format idea. I didn't like going to 12. I thought if we were going to expand from four that at most we should go to eight, but I'm realistic. I know what moves college football and college sports. Money, money, money.

The cash, the dinero, the moolah. That's what moves college football. So college athletics, the NCAA can make more money by going to a 12 team format. You drastically jump when it was unnecessary to expand from four to 12. So am I now surprised that they're going to 16?

No, but as I said earlier, I'll say it again. I'm addicted to football. So I could sit here. I could bitch a complaint. I could say, oh, it's ridiculous how they expanded this. Oh, they're going to, they already expanded to 12. They're going to expand to 16. I know I'm going to sit down on Saturdays.

I'm gonna watch my football, place my bets, eat my food, do all that stuff, and watch college football from 12 o'clock until I go to sleep at night where I'm falling asleep watching college football, because I love college football. So I could despise and detest the format and not like it and think it's unnecessary. And that's the answer to the question. I do not like going to 16. I think it's ridiculous. I think it is ridiculous. I think it is ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous. I think it is just pointless. And I think it's unnecessary, but I understand why they're doing it. And it's because if there's a way to get one more extra cent, football has showed us time and time again, football will do whatever to get that extra cent, even when they don't need to. All right, let's see if you can go seven for seven. This is a full sweep.

It might be if I go all side here. Oh, so just when we thought the Raphael Devers drama was over, it reared its ugly head again. The Red Sox star reluctantly switched to DH after the team signed Alex Bregman to play third base. Well, now the Sox lost first baseman Tristan Costas for the season after a knee injury and apparently approached Devers about moving to first base, an idea that Devers rejected immediately, as told by his translator.

They had the conversation with me. I don't think it's the best decision after, you know, they asked me to play a different position and I don't even have two months playing this position to all of a sudden have me try to play another position. They talked to me and basically, you know, told me to put away my glove, that I, you know, I wasn't going to play any other position but DH. So right now I just feel like it's not an appropriate decision by them to ask me to play another position.

They put me in this situation and now, you know, I think they should do their jobs essentially and hit the market and look for another player. All right, onsides offsides, Devers is completely justified in refusing to switch positions again. That's being his interpreter, right? It is, yes.

Yeah. This guy's a jerk. He's a heck of a player. He's a jerk. He's a terrible teammate. You are getting paid a king's ransom. It'd be one thing if you weren't already getting the contract and you thought it would hurt your value. So he's all annoyed.

He's all caught up in his feelings. Oh, the feelings of Rafael Devers because they went out and got Bregman and Bregman's the better defensive fielding third baseman. So they said, we're going to put Bregman at third. You're going to DH. Now the team is saying, we have a major injury.

We would like to see if you could be effective at first base and he's telling them to go kick rocks. Now I know the Boston Red Sox have been run horribly for the last decade, right? This is an organization with all that they've won.

Their fan base hates this organization now, and they're still in it right now. Baseball season is young. You're a game over 500. You're two games back of the Yankees to have the AL lease right now in the lead spot. And this guy's not at least willing. Take a few ground balls at first base and try it out.

You're already getting your money. I think this is inevitably going to end where Rafael Devers is going to request a trade at some point because he hates this organization right now. And I feel like Red Sox fans, they're just numb to losing players at this point because they, they got rid of the organization Mookie Bets, which is one of the dumbest trades ever.

You no longer have Zander Bogarts. I think Red Sox fans are going to be like, okay, this is finally a season where you go into it and you feel like this team is starting to turn around. You feel like ownership is actually committed.

And now this guy, Rafael Devers, isn't going to try to be a team player. I would look at that and I would say, look how much money you're making, right? Like if my boss has said to me, Hey Zach, we're paying you a King's ransom. And if they came to me in a few months and they said to me, we want you to do middle of the day show, even if I was like opposed to it. Oh, you're still going to be paying me what I want, even though I'd rather do afternoons. No, throw you in the middle of the day.

I would have to accept it at some point. And Rafael Devers, you're still getting paid a lot of money. Go do what the team tells you to do and stop acting like a little baby. Oh, this whining star of Raphael Devers. So unlikable. So Devers is completely justifies and refusing to switch positions again.

Heck no offsides clean sweep. All right. It is Zach Gelb showing the infinity sports network. We will take a break. We will do our 5 20 PM Eastern time segment, which is supposed to be our 4 40 PM Eastern time segment. But I made a booboo.

I had a little mismanagement at 4 40 PM Eastern time. So we come on back. The Maple Leafs are up 2 0.

Is this finally their year and give us a sports team that needs to break a curse? We'll do all that when we return 8 8 8 7 10 for ISN, 8 8 8 7 10, 44 76. You could always interact with Zach Gelb show on Twitter and Instagram at Zach Gelb. That's Z A C H G E L B, where we get great tweets, by the way, like this last one that I got 13 minutes ago from M and then a word that I can't say on the radio.

It starts with a B. Since when is the update guy supposed to be so opinionated? Zach Gelb, just give us news updates, then shut your mouth, you ass clown.

That's what I just got. OK, I'm literally paid to give my opinion. I've never done updates.

I wouldn't even know how to do an update. I'm a talk show host. So I will respond to this person M with a B word that rhymes with itch.

And that's their their Twitter profile name to shut your ass up. All right. Because you looking like the clown. It is the Zach Gelb show on the Infinity Sports Network, where I do talk a lot. And sometimes I do need to shut up.

And sometimes I do look like a clown, but I'm literally paid to give my opinion. So you tweeting me, just give us the update. What update do you want me to give you? I don't know what that update would be, but whatever it's doing on a Friday and itch, I hope you find happiness on your Friday and hope you have a wonderful Friday evening thinking about me.

And I love when you think about me and my award winning updates that I've never given an update in my life. Anyway, it is that Gelb show on the Infinity Sports Network. Is that your burner, by the way? Oh, you found it. You found my burner.

You're coming on back. I may be somebody's favorite around here. Any guesses, Stu? I just had a conversation with somebody in the newsroom and this person loves me. Loves me.

Big fan of mine. Want to guess? Anthony Gallo.

Yeah, you're exactly right. Gallo coming up to me. He goes, I'm a little worried what the environment's going to be like at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. He goes, are you going?

And I go, no, I'm not going Saturday. I'm watching with Carlos with a K. And we're going to this Bar Mason jar. And then we're going to go to the Mets game after the Knicks game ends. I won't be like Manny Rodriguez watching the Knicks game at a baseball game. So anyway, Gallo goes, you know, I got to give you credit.

I go, OK, what are you going to give me credit for? He goes, you had great seats for game five up against the Pistons. And he's very concerned about the fans tomorrow because the tickets are so good. It's like 950 bucks just to get in the door. I have a friend that has a suite. And my friend that has a suite, his tickets are already like given out to clients. But he said, if you just get in the building, you know, get a nosebleed and I'll get you up to the suite. So I was like, all right, if it's like three, 400 bucks to get in the building, I would pay three, 400 bucks to get in the building and then just go sit in a suite and eat a lot of food and, you know, have a good time and watch the game. He told me it was 950 bucks for a nosebleed ticket. I'm like, I'm not paying 950. I'm not paying a thousand bucks to go to a second round game.

I'm not doing that. So Carlos with the K and I, we're going to go have some wings and drink some beer, a few beers, like one or two, not a lot. And then we will go to Citi Field and then we will watch the Mets up against the Cubs after the Knicks game ends. But Gallo goes, I got to give you credit because when you were at game five up against the Pistons, he goes, all the people that have those very good seats, like in the first six, seven rows, they all get up and leave at half, like right before halftime with two and a half, three minutes left. He goes, I was watching you like a hawk. He goes, I wanted to see what type of fan Zach Gelb is. And he goes, I know you're large. I know you stand out, but you were sitting there until the half ended. So Gallo just praising me left and right when I'm walking around the newsroom, he's like, you got to get in the building on Saturday.

He's telling me I'm the reason why the Knicks are going to potentially win. I go, Gallo, they lost the game that I went to. So I don't think I'm going Saturday. There's an outside, very minuscule chance that I end up going Monday, potentially. But we'll see. I got some conversations to have with some people, see who's going to get me in the building.

Anywho, let's do this. So the Toronto Maple Leafs, they are now up 2-0 and they have a commanding 2-0 series lead up against the Florida Panthers. You know, this series has been interesting. A lot of people were complaining about the Bennett hit on Stolarz the goalie.

I didn't think it was that big of a deal. I think now in hockey, a lot of times, and we're used to hockey being played a certain way, every year in the playoff, there is something that is minor that turns out to be a bigger deal than it is. And I'm fine that the NHL basically did nothing to Bennett. But with that being said, the Florida Panthers are in a 0-2 hole and this series is far from being over. If there is a team that could come back in hockey and get the job done, it's the Florida Panthers and we'll see what transpires tonight when the series shifts back to Florida. I don't like this old adage, but they say a series really isn't over until you drop one on your home ice.

I would not want to be in a 2-0 hole, but I've seen my hockey team before go to Carolina, lose the first two, then wins games three and four at Madison Square Garden, then go back to Carolina, lose game five, then win game six, and then go to Carolina and win game seven. So I guess that theory could be true, but if you're a Toronto Maple Leafs fan right now, where a few years ago you got out of the first round so you finally broke that curse, but you haven't won a Stanley Cup in forever, Canada hasn't won a Stanley Cup in forever as well, you've had an all-star team and whether it's the goaltending or whether it's just the star players not showing up in the big moments, right, you've had a change in captaincy, you've had multiple coaches. Craig Berube is a Stanley Cup champion winning head coach with the St. Louis Blues.

I thought that was a phenomenal hire. I remember saying this off season, if Berube can't find the way to get the best version out of this Maple Leafs team, then no one's going to be able to do it. So now being up 2-0, and I thought going into this series that this was a toss-up, it could go either way, but now being up 2-0, Toronto has to win this series or they're going to get clowned. So let's do this, who's a team in sports or you know whether it's winning a championship or another curse, who needs to break a curse? So let's do this, we'll start with Stu, then we'll go to me, and then we're going to basically use Samter as a filler because Samter's going to give us like six or seven answers before getting down to his answer. So Stu, who's your first answer right there?

What do you got cooking for us? For me it's kind of simple, it's the Buffalo Bills winning a Super Bowl, and obviously they've never done that before, they had the fourth straight AFC Championship, the fourth straight losses in the Super Bowl after winning the AFC Championship, and then you have Josh Allen right now in his prime, and if you don't get this done with Josh Allen, you might not see another Josh Allen for 50 years. So I think they have to do it, and they have to do it in the next handful of years, or they're going to waste Josh Allen, which is crazy to say. And they had Jim Kelly, Hall of Fame quarterback, the four straight Super Bowl appearances, couldn't get the job done, now you have a quarterback who's the best quarterback in the history of the franchise just in terms of talent in Josh Allen, and they've had so many games where Josh Allen has played great, and they failed to get the job done. Like how they haven't got through one time up against Kansas City, and there's already such a list of games up with Bass missing the kick, the what, the 13 second game or whatever it was, and then this past year too, it's amazing how many times they come up short up against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Here's mine. Here we go, Brownies, here we go. The Cleveland Browns, since 1999, what the heck are they doing at quarterback? They need to find a franchise quarterback. I've gone through, here are all the quarterbacks since 1999 that have started games for the Cleveland Browns. Stu, when you hear a new quarterback's name, just count because I will lose track of it.

Just when you hear, like if I say Tim Couch and then Tim Couch again, just count them one time. So 1999, Tim Couch, Ty Detmer, Doug Peterson, Tim Couch again, Spurgeon Wynn, Tim Couch again, Tim Couch, Kelly Holcomb, Kelly Holcomb, Tim Couch, that's just from 1999 to 2003 by the way, people have started games. 2004, Jeff Garcia, Luke McCown, Kelly Holcomb again. 2005, Trent Dilfer, Charlie Fry, what a throwback. 2006, Charlie Fry. 2006, Derek Anderson. 2007, Derek Anderson. 2007, Charlie Fry. 2008, Derek Anderson. 2008, Brady Quinn. 2008, Ken Dorsey. 2008, Bruce Grudkowski. Man, I'm really making Stu's counting methods just work here.

Third hand here. 2009, trust me, you'll need more than two hands and two feet for this one. 2009, Brady Quinn, Derek Anderson. 2010, Colt McCoy, Jake Deloam, Seneca Wallace. 2011, Colt McCoy, Seneca Wallace. 2012, Old Man Brandon Weeden and Thad Lewis.

2013, oh, I got to catch my breath here. Jason Campbell, Brandon Weeden, Brian Hoyer. 2014, Brian Hoyer, Johnny Manziel, Connor Shaw. Connor Shaw. Can anyone tell me what college Connor Shaw went to?

Just wondering. Wasn't that the assistant coach for the Michigan Wolverines who got in trouble? That's Connor Stallions. Yeah, okay, that's right. Connor Shaw, anyone have a guess here?

I think it was South Carolina, right? Very good, Stu. Look at that.

How about that? Stewie football. 2015, Josh McCown. 2015, Johnny Manziel. 2015, Austin Davis. 2016, Cody Kessler. 2016, RG3, Robert Griffin III. 2016, I said Luke McCown earlier, right? Did I? Yes.

Yes. Yeah, now we have Josh McCown. 2017, Deshaun Kaiser, Kevin Hogan. 2018, Baker Mayfield, Terod Taylor.

Oh, now we have some consistency. Baker Mayfield in 2019, Baker Mayfield in 2020, Baker Mayfield in 2021, Case Keenum in 2021, Nick Mullins in 2021, Jacoby Bercette in 2022, Deshaun Watson in 2022, Deshaun Watson in 2023, Joe Flacco in 2023, Dorian Thompson Robinson in 2023, PJ Walker in 2023. That was my college classmate. Jeff Driscoll in 2023. 2024.

Man, I wish I was getting paid by the word in this segment. Jameis Winston, Deshaun Watson, Dorian Thompson Robinson, Bailey Zappe. Stew, how many quarterbacks was that?

Just not the same name. Just, you know, just to start a game. That would be 40 different quarterbacks.

Oh my God. 40? 40. Holy smokes. From 1999. So with all that being said, the curse that needs to be broken is the Browns finding a franchise quarterback. Alrighty, we go to Michael Sampter looking for a curse to be broken in sports.

You know, I had a few written down here, but like after that one with the Browns, I don't think anything's going to beat that. That is awful. Now hold on. I apologize to YouTube chat. Moist Pork is a die-hard Cleveland Browns fan. He's listening. Moist, I apologize sincerely that I just put you through that pain and that PTSD. I really do apologize from the bottom of my heart. Anyway, Santoriya cooking.

Moist Mike, what do we got? So, uh, when I was thinking of, uh, in the hockey world, the winner of the president's cup, most points in NHL, 2013 was the last time they won the Stanley cup. That was the Chicago Blackhawks.

So that's one of those ones. So I guess that would be the Winnipeg Jets this year, but it's been 12 years. Uh, how about the Cleveland guardians back in baseball?

What was the first point of the 12 years? So no team that's won the president's cup has gone on to win the Stanley cups since 2013. So the Winnipeg Jets could break that curse. The Cleveland guardians haven't won a world series since 1948. They've lost three different times in the world series.

We discussed it earlier. The bears have never had a 4,000 yard passer, but they do have a Pope, which is amazing. The New York jets, my New York jets and the Buffalo Sabres, 14 consecutive seasons without a playoff appearance, but I don't think the jets go to the playoffs this year. Yeah, just going out on a limb, but I'm going to go with this one, the Detroit lions who have not only never won a super bowl, they have never been to a super bowl.

Also, I'm going to give you one more. And I feel like when we talk about NFL teams that are cursed, we talk about the Cleveland Browns, right? We talk about the Buffalo Bills. We talk about the Detroit lions. The Vikings have had some nasty, and I mean nasty losses. So I don't want to take away from Vikings fans pain. So I'll just throw the Minnesota Vikings obviously in there as well. But yeah, like you look around, we're talking Cleveland. You just said Detroit and Stu ended up going with the Buffalo Bills.

It's tough to beat those. We had some curse breakers in our lifetime, obviously. The Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs. There's been some big curses broken in our lifetime. The Cavaliers?

Yeah. And LeBron Cleveland, this is for you with all that. So there's been some curses broken, but we'll see if the Maple Leafs can win the cup this year.

That's one to look at, especially being up 2-0. All righty. We'll take our final break of the day. Ack, I thought you said something offensive, if I'm being honest. And I thought I was going to... What did I say? I got blamed for you. I got tweeted by someone earlier that was like, you're just the update guy.

Why are you giving your opinion constantly? They were saying that to me. And I'm like, oh, we didn't give Ack... I don't remember going with you at all during the show. No. Sorry about that. Yeah. So I thought you said something that I'm taking you for, but it's not. I wonder what's wrong with my opinion. Who are you, Mr.

Guy on Twitter? Yeah, right. I welcome your opinion all the time.

There you go. I think a good show is everyone can give their opinion, feel free to chime in, and then... I got lots of them. Sometimes they're better kept unsaid. Well, I will say that your best opinions are when it has to be associated with something with history or a fact. That's when you become an almanac.

So I don't know about that. I have a lot of things to say, as I said. Should we start ranking employees around here?

And you give us your true thoughts of some of the employees around here. Which Santa are we ranking? Santa, Ack just had it out for you this week. Listen, Pope Santa says, I forgive you, Ack.

Thank you. Yeah, Santa now thinks he's the Pope because AI has made him a photo of the Pope. Hey, one of those hundred guys, you never know.

Could be. And I couldn't beat up the Pope. That would not be good on the resumes. I'd yell, beats up the Pope would not be good. You lived in Chicago how many years? Two and a half. Okay. Do you take pride in the Pope being from Chicago?

You know, well, first of all, I'm not Catholic, so I think that's hard. I know Chicagoans do. I mean... Were you a Cubs fan when you were there or a White Sox fan? Oh, I like that. I'm a National League guy. And I lived on the north side, walking distance from Wrigley. And the Cubs were so bad, but it was so good on a Friday afternoon when I was off to just walk over there, walk up, and they basically say, where do you want to sit? I always wanted to sit... Because you're a big star right on the radio. No, I mean, they had so many vacancies. I always wanted to sit in the bleaches.

I wanted to get that experience. Were you rowdy then? Was Ack rowdy? I can't imagine you being rowdy.

No, not at all. But I wanted to sit in the bleaches, but they were so bad and they had so many good seats. They'd give me a seat. I was sitting with the radar guys, five rows behind the plate.

It was unbelievable. Yeah. So, yeah.

But they... Were you a big pizza guy in Chicago? If you could be a pizza snob, you didn't like pizza. I like New York style pizza, so that was not for me.

If you need a fork and a knife, it's not pizza. Yes, exactly. That's kind of my philosophy. But I will say Chicagoans take great, immense, enormous, whatever, you know, whatever word you want to use to describe it. That's how much civic pride they have.

And I'm sure they are absolutely beaming at the new pope. Will you see a 4,000 yard passer in your lifetime with the Bears? Yeah, absolutely. And just with the way the game's trending. Well, could be this year. You never know. I hope it'd be this year. They don't get 4,000 yards out of Caleb Williams this year. Guess what?

That means the guy's a buster. He got hurt. I remember when 3,000 yards was a lot.

Yeah, back in the Stone Age. Yeah, 14 game schedule. Now have 16 teams at a college football playoff. All right, let's get an update in here, Zach.

All right. It is Zach Yeltsch on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going through all the quarterbacks that the Cleveland Browns have had since 1999. We mentioned Charlie Fry.

Charlie Fry is not calling into the show, but Daniel in Hawaii, I guess, knows Charlie Fry at 88710 for ISN, 88710, 4476. And he wants to share that. So what's happening, Daniel? Yes, hello? Yes, Daniel, go ahead.

Oh, all right. Hold on. I'm doing it, Zach. Don't do it.

Don't do it. I'm doing two. I'm multitasking.

I'm sorry. What are you doing? Multitasking. I was in a store trying to... You gave me five minutes.

I didn't finish the time. What are you doing in the store, just wondering? You getting something nice? Yeah, beer. Oh, you got a little beer. What kind of beer you got on a Friday?

The best one I like is 8%, so it's called Hurricane. Okay, all right. So having a little fun on a Friday. So what do you want to talk about, Daniel? So you guys were talking about the Browns in Cleveland, and my kids went to school with Charlie Fry.

Oh, really? I've known him since he was about seven years old. They went to Akron together?

No, no, Willard. He went to Willard High School. Oh, you mean in high school, not college? Yeah, high school. So what's the scouting report on a young Charlie Fry just wondering?

What do you remember? Well, I saw him play a lot, and I thought he was a really good player. He went to Akron, got a full scholarship and all that. You obviously know all that stuff.

And then what? He became a MVP in the Senior Bowl. And so I always liked him. He's always a good kid. Gotcha.

He knew his parents and everything. Are you eating anything with that beer tonight? Yes. What are you eating? My wife's surprising me all the time, especially on Friday night. So you got your wife making you something, you're taking care of the beer, and you're going to have a nice Friday night is what you're telling me. I got her wine too, yeah. Oh, a little wine and dine. If she makes you chicken wings tonight, just wondering, you going ranch or blue cheese with those wings?

Well, everything's blue cheese. Thank you. That's why I know you're an acceptable human being to society. Appreciate the phone call, Daniel.

Have a great Friday evening. Daniel in Hawaii knows Charlie Fry. You know what? I will give Stu and Santa all the money that I have right now in my wallet. If you could tell me what Charlie Fry's job is right now.

He's on an NFL team. Oh, I was going to say hands up. Hands up. I want your hands up in the air.

Let me see those hands. Where is Charlie Fry? Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri.

Oh, my Siri on my computer just went off. Where is Charlie Fry coaching right now? What's his position?

Give you all the money in my wallet. I'm going to go with... Hands up, Stu and Santa.

I'm going to go with offensive assistant for the Green Bay Packers. Not a bad guess, but you're wrong. I will go... Santa, don't you look this up and have Stu solve you son of a bitch. Don't be doing that. Stu, I want an answer now. I feel like Jack.

I want an answer now. I'm not talking to you. I will go quarterback coach for, let's say, Tulane. First of all, you said NFL job, by the way. Oh, did he say NFL? I said football job. I just looked it up.

I'm shocked. Minnesota Vikings, defensive assistant. Defensive assistant.

Yes, defensive. I'm looking at his coaching career. Jones, Florida, OC. OC at Wekiva, Florida. I don't even know what the heck that is.

Me neither. Ashland, wide receivers coach. OC at Central Michigan. Quarterbacks coach for the Dolphins. Offensive analysis. Analyst for Penn State. Florida Atlantic, OC. Now he's a D assistant? That makes no sense.

Yeah, defensive assistant. I was in the right division. I had the I had the how much money you guys would have won? Uh, $12. You're not a cash guy. I don't see you walking around with a lot of cash.

Come back from Vegas with a lot of cash. Yeah, but you have the credit card bill to pay. No, but I deposited the cash. Oh, OK.

I don't think I have a dollar a month right now. It is. Yeah, it's all cards and my license and a PBA card and my enhanced ID and my SAG-AFTRA. Oh, you got your enhanced ID. Got my hands like good, good, terrible picture.

The lines for the DMV are like five hours long because people are scrambling to get their real ideas. Terrible picture. I had my photo for when I was 16 for my learner's permit up until now. I need a new photo.

I was too tall for them taking the photo, so they made me like crouch down. I look so old. I look so terrible.

It is an awful. I used to have a great photo license for 2016. This photo. Now I look terrible. It is like I showed it to someone. They said it doesn't even look like you. So I flew with it. I had no problem.

But geez, terrible photo. It's time to answer. Ask the pros question of the day brought to you by O'Reilly Auto Parts. We have Ashley, who is chiming in from New York, who says, Zach, do you think the Knicks win tomorrow? They could submit a question by tweeting at INF Sports at our at Zach Elbe using the hashtag ask the pros.

Think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs can guarantee low price and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Ashley, I think so. I think I don't know if the Knicks win tomorrow.

Now you're asking me the question. I do think the Knicks are going to win one of the next two. I'm going to say they win tomorrow. They lose game four. So I think they're up 3-1 going back to Boston for a little game five up against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.

As for the games tonight, I will give you a little preview on the games tonight. I think there's a huge test for the Thunder. Like you lose game one. You should have won game one.

You got blown out. You blew out the Nuggets in game number two. You won by 43 points. If you're ready to go win a championship this year, you don't mess around with the Nuggets.

You don't mess around with the preeminent player in the NBA, Nicole Jokic. I like the Thunder tonight and I like the Thunder big. Not 43 points big, but I think they'll cover the five and a half. The Cavs and the Pacers, the Cavs are getting some bodies back.

It's tough to really give you a reading so you know who definitely will play. My gut tells me, though, the Pacers, just like the Knicks who are up 2-0 now going back home, they will win one of these next two. So since I picked the Knicks to win game three and lose game four, I'll reverse it.

I'll reverse it here. I think the Cavs win game three. The Pacers then win game four and it will still go back to Cleveland at three games to one.

So that's what I'm rocking and rolling with. And the next time the Golden State Warriors get on the court is Minyana, the Timberwolves and the Warriors. I don't love what I'm seeing for the Timberwolves, quite frankly, even though it's tied up at one apiece.

And I know Steph is out and he's not going to play tomorrow. I think the Timberwolves will mess around here in Golden State and they'll lose one of these games. I don't think whoever prevails with the Timberwolves and Warriors will be either the Thunder or the Denver Nuggets. I think you'll see either the Thunder, the Denver Nuggets go to the NBA Finals. And right now, I obviously think it's going to be the Oklahoma City Thunder. I think we're on a collision course to see the Knicks and the Thunder in the NBA Finals.

And who would have thought that before the playoffs start, at least in the Eastern Conference? Alrighty. That will do it for another week of the Zach Gelb show on the Infinity Sports Network. We appreciate you tuning on in. Big thanks to Stu. Big thanks to Samter. Big thanks to Ack. And big thanks to each and every one of you.

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