What are you going to do about it?

Yeah, I think when you go back and watch it, though, and this has been a theme for the entire year and we got to get better at it.

It's that initial point of contact.

Who's getting to push the knock back on the line of scrimmage? And a lot of the time it's not our offensive line.

And we have to get a better attitude to ourselves.

Because when you go back, David Bailey, I understand.

Watching that game, I see exactly why he was the number two pick in this draft.

And it's also important because you've got three straight road games after this Sunday's contest against the Ravens.

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?

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?

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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?

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.

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.

How would you feel about a James Harden, Jalen Brown, Evan Mobley trios to start off next year?

Call me crazy, but I like it.

I think it's better.

I think that we've come to the conclusion at the end of this season that Donovan Mitchell is not a number one, okay? And don't get me wrong, Donovan Mitchell has been great for the Cavs.

He's a great guy.

You don't have to worry about no character issues.

He is just fantastic.

Those four, what do you think they would be capable

This is for the fans, and gambling and the rest but it like doing him like this and not letting him come in with a suspension no

i think it's i think it's you got to set the precedent i mean because you the thing is you got to let people know this is not right you cannot do this i'm with you he is the perfect candidate for the show this is not we not allowing this to happen you gotta you gotta make an example out of somebody He's the perfect guy because he's a good quarterback, but he's not great.

If this is Arch Manning, they would move mountains to make sure that Arch Manning was eligible to play.

It's like Nico Iamaliaba when he decided to hold Tennessee hostage right before a spring game.

And they said, no, no, we good.

Go ahead.

Like he was the perfect candidate to show like we ain't messing around.

Are you buying that? Where are you at with that report?