This is a big deal for the Buckeyes, and they really got to bring it.

Yeah, they do.

I think that this game, because I can see it going both ways.

I can see us winning, and I can see a scenario where we lose.

What I would say is that when you look at Indiana, their defense as far as stopping the run, they're really good at it.

They're number one in the Big Ten at stopping the run, but they're not that good at stopping the pass, which which our strength is passing the football.

So it's going to be interesting to see what the game plan is there.

What did he have to say about everything and how the Buckeyes are looking?

You think they wouldn't move him if he kind of presses them on that, or do you think they would hold on to him? What do you think the, the team would do?

Uh, I think that they w- I think they value Shedeur.

I don't, I, I don't think that they want to move on from him.

I mean, this is a guy who literally was in a competition to be your starting quarterback.

I don't think you really want to get rid of a guy like that.

But, I mean, if they feel like Dylan Gabriel is the better backup quarterback option, or if they feel like Shedeur is a problem or not doing what he's supposed to do, then they probably will move off of him, but I have not heard that be the case.

I haven't seen that be the case.

What, uh, what bothered you most about the game against the Jets, man?

Yeah,

four versus five.

Four versus five.

Right now, Ohio State's favorite, I think it's three and a half.

points maybe which is to be on the road well to be on the road you know that's that's pretty good usually you go up against the top five team and they're at home usually they're favored to win the matchup is interesting because it comes down to the secondaries I think both secondaries are struggling um their defense you know they just coming off of that Nebraska game if we had What Nebraska had a quarterback, Anthony Calandria, for Nebraska folks that don't know, he's a scrambling quarterback.

He was running all over the field with them, and that's what kind of kept him in the game.

But the game was interesting because Nebraska was up, I believe, 17-7 at a point in time.

Right, because do you feel like Indiana, just with the writing off last year, they got a little more momentum behind them compared to OSU? Yeah,

I already know.

Yeah, of course.

I'm picking the number one team in the nation.

Thank you, Matty.

We knew what time it was.

It's been a, it's been a long time since we've been back to this number one spot.

You know, and I was gonna pick Buckeyes, but he said I could only pick one, so let's just talk about Georgia the whole time.

[laughs]

record on a series yes coming out yes game five

i think it's it was that right there kind of made the weekend right it didn't really matter what happened outside of the fact that that happened that it made it a successful weekend for me particularly um It just shows resiliency.

It was a little doubt, but then the fact that they got it to 2-2 and I had Gavin on the mound, I said, well, if Gavin's on the mound, it's over with.

And he went out there and delivered a 12-strikeout performance.

to leave no doubt there's been so much negativity around jose ramirez especially when it comes to the postseason they would say oh he he just doesn't get it done and everybody's like well he got to carry him through the regular season he'd be kind of out of gas well and then he's battling the hand injury but them last couple of games he truly came to life sent one over the fence where he golfed it he Golf swung it to get it over the fence.

But that was all they needed.

And you get a dominant performance from Gavin.

One thing about me is I know ball.

I mean, it is.

If a team came out and said, we're going to put all 11 people on Jeremiah Smith to stop him, who would be the other guys that step up? That's still a question.

I think that they've gotten better.

Jacoby Jackson seems like he's trying to emerge as running back one.

I think he's been a great addition.

Devin McEwen had a touchdown, had 80 yards last week, so it was good to see him step up.

And I'm confident that he could be a wide receiver too.

They have

It's been a rough couple games.

What do you have to say about it? Just a little bit.

It's really, you know, you know how in your mind you paint something and you know how it you you you expect it to go a certain way and you learn from your mistakes.

Like last year, we seen this when they had that epic comeback with the Detroit Tigers to win the division.

And then they ended up playing the Tigers and then losing to the Tigers.

So I said, OK, they made that mistake once.

why am i reliving it again why do i seem like i'm reliving it again and i just game two was such a pivotal game that they should have gotten you know when you got gavin williams on the mound your best pitcher you think you should have that one in the bag and for a lot of that game they did and then it kind of got away from them at the end and the guardians problem is they don't have the hitting power That if they go down by one run, essentially the game's over.

What do you have to say about that?

So talk about that cast of characters and the guys not named Mason Graham, and what you want to see from them in the coming weeks.

Well, I think that, I think Isaiah McGuire has done a pretty decent job.

Obviously, being a...

He's more of a run stuffer, but he does a great job.

Jared Verse, he's got that great bully technique, and I think he's really...

Although it's not showing up for sacks for him, his bully technique is so good that it's making these quarterbacks step up in the pocket, and those defensive tackles are doing a great job of being right there to clean it up.

And, uh, Derek Barnett coming off the bench is a really good guy as well.

Is there any part of you that feels like if they did trade him, that that would be a, "Hey, he may come back to haunt us," or you think they just need to completely clean the slate with him and move on right now?

Like, how do you reconcile that polling? And Iowa hardly fell at all

in the polls.

What the heck? I know.

So this is the truth.

The truth out loud is the AP polls is irrelevant.

It is.

It is.

You know, why is it important that these players, you know, also enjoy this time? I know it's very serious.

T, if it's in your mind, if it's tough for this to be sustainable, which I'm in your camp, do you lean more into him or is it because of this offensive line that will always look like a work in progress, that most of the penalties were on them and they can't sustain long drives? Like, is it more about Deshaun or is it more about the team around him?

I think that the offensive line is going to be a work in progress.

I mean, anytime you get five different guys up there, it's going to be a struggle.

I do think in the first game, he did himself no favors with some of the drops that he was taking.

I think he was dropping a little bit too deep, and it was making it easy on those pass rushers.

So I'll give the offensive line a little bit of a pass, but I think that he's been better in these last couple of games.

Guys just kept getting beat, and I think Titus Howard... is probably the main culprit of that right now, that right tackle spot.

Talk about his presence and what you're seeing from him on tape right now.

Are you leaning more towards his mentality and all this and just being done with Cleveland in general and all that?

Both.

They're not paying that much.

You think they paid that man $230 million and then think you're going to pay him again? That's not happening.

And he don't want to be there no way.

He told you as much three weeks ago.

So, I mean, everybody's going their separate ways after this.

Is this a Quinshawn coming back from an injury thing? Is this a lack of push up front from the offensive line or maybe a combination of both? What are you seeing when it comes to the issues with the run games for the Brownies right now?

Like, where are you with that comment about the defense?

Feels like that's the case, doesn't it? I mean, you look at, honestly, first of all, the game of football has different things that happen over the course of the game, right? So we just sit here and we can say, you know, they shouldn't have, or Arch Manning should have more points.

And all of those things, and when that Cam Coleman had dropped and we turned it into an interception.

We can talk about all those things, but that defense also created three takeaways in the second half.

They just never recovered them.

I mean, they had the Inky Jones fumble, tried to get the fumble recovery where they muffed the punt.

Peyton Pierce stripped one.

And so where do you land on the lack of Legend Bay, the lack of Boyd, some of these guys that we've been hearing about all offseason that have been putting in good work by the sounds of it, and then they don't call their number on the road in a matchup like this?

So when you look at this matchup, where does your mind go immediately for Cleveland taking on Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars?

I pray to God every night on this that Deshaun Watson is something that we haven't seen.

There's something that is there that we haven't seen.

And he's going to resurrect his career because if he looks anything like he's been looking, It's going to be bad.

And the fan base, I don't know how much they're going to stand for this season.

Because you're basically telling us that we shouldn't believe what our eyes are telling us.

And I just think that that's kind of a scary place to be in.

I mean, should we expect anything other than a four quarter game here?

After the couple of drops that happened earlier, what did you make of that and what impact? I guess the question of this is how much of these offensive playmakers does Ryan trust Saturday in Austin?

Yeah, I think, though, obviously, you got to see it some more with the two young guys, Brock Boyd and Chris Henry Jr.

You know, for Chris Henry to be 6'5", I love the way he moves.

You know, he's got some really quick sudden and shiftiness to him.

Even on that touchdown slant, I was like, man, he's getting down low, shaking up that defender.

So I understand all the hype there.

Obviously, he's got to be more consistent.

What did you make of the depth that they played in the back end, your forte, and who jumped out to you back there?

What's your understanding, T, of how that's coming along and Bunkett's confidence in the big dogs up front?

So I think that honestly, I went back and I was watching some old tapes from last year, the last couple of seasons.

And a lot of people would be like, why is Kevin Stefanski running this 12 and 13 personnel all the time? Why is Harold Fanning spaced out as a wide receiver? And we got all these other tight ends there.

It's because our offensive line wasn't good.

You wonder why we was running all that quick games? Because our offensive line wasn't good.

So I think that they saw that that was a big issue and they wanted to become more explosive.

So they went out and they invested all this time and money into the offensive line.

Did you?

[laughs]

Why would you say this? Like, are you trying to sabotage [laughs] yourself right now out of the race? So it was one of those moments.

And, and like I say, I, I'm, I'm 32 now, so I like to put myself in the shoes of everybody.

You know, I don't like to just judge people.

I like to think, see where they coming from.

And I think this is just something that's been building up.

This is something that he should've said a long time ago.

... expecting from them this year?

all right we're getting answers uh we're getting hey guys i should say in at 971 bfs on twitter we're also getting them in the youtube chat fast and furious this morning we'll start uh with phil who asks hey guys does tyvus powell ever go home and hold his newborn son

listen i'll have you know something i definitely go home actually this is how my day goes so i get done with here and then i go home and the first thing i do the first person that greets me at the door is my dog max is man's best friend he's before every kid and i have to greet him first because if i don't he's just gonna growl at me until i do so i greet max first Then I go around and I give my youngest daughter a kiss because she always runs.

Daddy jumps in my arms.

I throw her in the air, give her a kiss, put her down.

I go find my oldest, give her a kiss.

Then I go to my wife, give her a kiss.

And then finally I get to the little guy and I hold him and I kiss him and I hold him for a little bit.

I mean, I was hoping that you had, like, a real dog.

Like what did you think of Denzel Boston, Casey Concepcion, Dylan Sampson, and kind of that sample size that we got from them?

So you know, I've been the one to slow play to Denzel Boston.

Everybody's been praising Denzel's name and, since OTAs.

"Oh, we got us something.

He's the next Mike Evans," and all of that.

And I always was the one that was like, "Hold on." Because he going up against, he's doing this against the twos, and our twos ain't good.

And I keep telling everybody [laughs] that our two receivers, our, I mean, our two DVs and three DVs is trash.

How, how concerned are you?

As much as we do have questions about reloading on defense, it's their offense that let them down at the end of last year, correct?

I would agree with that statement.

I think that, yeah, you hit on it pretty well.

It's pretty much the offensive line took a lot of the blame.

And then Julian saying, I guess people say he got spooked or he just had happy feet and all of those things.

You go back and watch some of that Miami game, it's just guys was open and he just kind of didn't get the ball to him or he kind of missed it or he didn't take the yards with his legs.

So it's like those type of things.

Real quick before we let you go, anything coming out of Brown's training camp that's making you feel good right now?

But is there any mystery at all for you around what Deshaun Watson could bring to the field this year for the Browns? Is there a mystery to it? Is there a little mystery about what he might be able to do? Or is it foregone in your mind he's not going to do anything and he'll be gone?

I feel like at this point, we all are kind of hoping and wishing that maybe it can get there.

But I've only watched him practice once, and that was Saturday.

And he didn't do anything that made me think, okay, this guy can go back to being the Houston...

Like that didn't seem like it was still there.

So at this stage, I'm going to say no.

I think his best days is behind him.

So when you were there Saturday, was there anyone that was being consistent with their play in a good way?

What was your read on that?

I think that when I first seen it, I laughed at it.

But then after doing some digging on it, they said that they kind of captured the video at a different moment or something like that to make it look like that's what he was talking about.

The fact of the matter is this, and this is where I'm at when it comes to the Browns and the quarterback competition.

It don't matter who I want, who you want, who Jerry want.

You know what matters? They're about to get on this dance floor tomorrow at 1.30, 1.15 maybe, and And it's gonna tell for itself.

Who cares who Judy wants? It's about who's performing the best in practice and in games.

Before we get you out of here and you can go watch my Reds beat up on your Guardians, outside of the quarterback situation, which player or players is Tyvis Powell excited to watch when training camp pops off here in a couple days?

was the argument?

So the argument was this, I went on there, it's hot take Tuesday.

So on the Cleveland show, the ultimate Cleveland sports show, I always come in and I give a hot take.

Well, today my hot take was the Cleveland Cavaliers will be better off without LeBron James.

And they was like, that is the most ludicrous thing that I've ever heard.

And I said, well, hear me out.

said that the problem is we are living there.

If you put your coaching hat on, your secondary guy, how do you take Jeremiah away? And then on the flip side of that, who do you think or who have you heard in that receiver room that might be a guy that can take some of that pressure off of Jeremiah?

What do you think of the burgundy and gold going into this fall?

I think it's interesting.

I think y'all in a very interesting spot because obviously we know what happened with Jayden Daniels was healthy.

You know, the amazing season he had as a rookie.

Last year was kind of a down year because we got to see what things look like when Jayden isn't in there.

And it's always going to be trickier the more that quarterbacks are playing because now there's film on you.

You're giving these defensive coordinators a whole offseason to play.

How does Sonny in the blitzing and rushing the quarterback type mindset, what could you see out of him with that?

Oh my God

... who shows up every Sunday and gives some of the best, uh, the best ana- analogies that I've ever seen.

If you ever wanna learn the game, just tune in to the pre- and post-game show and listen to that guy teach you the game of football.

His name is Tyrus, by the way.

But anyways, as far as players go, I think this is gonna be a big year for Quinnen.

I really do.

I think that when you're installing a new offense, you always wanna get that run game going and, you know, that's something that Todd Monken has really done a good job with, is getting that run game going.

Mm-hmm.

So your thoughts on the contract and what you think this means for LeBron.

Yeah, I mean, I wasn't a huge fan of it.

I wanted him to wait.

I wanted the Cavs to kind of wait till next year.

I know that obviously if you wait till next year, the extension number jumps by like $100 million.

So I get why they want to get it done.

And I'm grateful for the fact that he wants to be here.

Where did this self-proclaimed people's champ come from? You just named yourself the people's champ one day.